Still active as an experimental filmmaker even at the age of 82, Seijun Suzuki made this film following Pistol Opera. Catching the world′s eyes original genre films in the ′60s, and Zigeunerweisen in the ′80s, his latest film is a love story set in a mythical space. Fated to be abandoned on the mountain according to his father′s incitement, Amechiyo escapes the danger with the help of a beautiful lady. The lady is Princess Raccoon, who transformed herself into a human being, and the two fall in love with each other. A father who envies his son′s good looks, the raccoons reject the love between a human being and a raccoon. However, Suzuki′s interest lies in a greater place than the path to pure love. By reinterpreting, in a modem style, Japan′s series from the 1940 and ′50s-he brings together various elements from the East and the West. Fairy tales and melodramas, enka and hip hop, theater and film, and real images and animations coexist and cheerfully dance along with their love. As expressed by Saint Saen, ′Operetta is the daughter of opera comique that went wrong. Not that girls who go wrong are without their charms.′ Princess Raccoon is like one big performance in which different genres of art come together to create a commotion. Zhang Ziyi and Odagiri Jo are joined by a surprise appearance by Japanese Pop Queen Hibari Misora-who was recreated by CG. (Kwon Yong-min)