Watanabe’s third feature film is a very peculiar production, featuring a silent protagonist but constant talking, black and white cinematography, and a repetition that seems to be more meaningful than ever.
Yusuke Mizuhara works as a lifeguard at a swimming pool, situated in a rather quiet suburb of Tokyo. He is a loner, and his life is dominated by an unwavering routine, that begins the moment he wakes up in his house, continues at the swimming pool and at a cinema after work, and finishes in his house again. Even the smallest details are dictated from this routine, as the time and the place he spends his break, for example. Apart from watching a movie each day, his only entertainment is listening to the news from his car radio and reading about them on his computer. However, the news he listens to, always deal with terrorist acts, war, and violent incidents in general,...
Yusuke Mizuhara works as a lifeguard at a swimming pool, situated in a rather quiet suburb of Tokyo. He is a loner, and his life is dominated by an unwavering routine, that begins the moment he wakes up in his house, continues at the swimming pool and at a cinema after work, and finishes in his house again. Even the smallest details are dictated from this routine, as the time and the place he spends his break, for example. Apart from watching a movie each day, his only entertainment is listening to the news from his car radio and reading about them on his computer. However, the news he listens to, always deal with terrorist acts, war, and violent incidents in general,...
- 3/27/2019
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Watanabe’s third feature film is a very peculiar production, featuring a silent protagonist but constant talking, black and white cinematography, and a repetition that seems to be more meaningful than ever.
Yusuke Mizuhara works as a lifeguard at a swimming pool, situated in a rather quiet suburb of Tokyo. He is a loner, and his life is dominated by an unwavering routine, that begins the moment he wakes up in his house, continues at the swimming pool and at a cinema after work, and finishes in his house again. Even the smallest details are dictated from this routine, as the time and the place he spends his break, for example. Apart from watching a movie each day, his only entertainment is listening to the news from his car radio and reading about them on his computer. However, the news he listens to, always deal with terrorist acts, war, and violent incidents in general,...
Yusuke Mizuhara works as a lifeguard at a swimming pool, situated in a rather quiet suburb of Tokyo. He is a loner, and his life is dominated by an unwavering routine, that begins the moment he wakes up in his house, continues at the swimming pool and at a cinema after work, and finishes in his house again. Even the smallest details are dictated from this routine, as the time and the place he spends his break, for example. Apart from watching a movie each day, his only entertainment is listening to the news from his car radio and reading about them on his computer. However, the news he listens to, always deal with terrorist acts, war, and violent incidents in general,...
- 2/24/2019
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Writer/director Hirobumi Watanabe is a relative newcomer to Japanese cinema, with his first film “And the Mud Ship Sails Away” released in 2013. However, he has become one of the most watched new talents with 2016’s “Poolside Man” taking the Cinema Splash Award at the Tokyo International Film Festival. With this new film “Party ‘Round the Globe” (2017) he once again shows a unique talent for unusual tragi-comic storytelling.
Party “Round the Globe is screening at Nippon Connection
The film begins with a charming sequence, as a young child narrates the story of a fantastical land where a boy fixated on the moon creates a machine that fills the sky with hundreds of other moons. So many moons are there that it becomes impossible to distinguish which is real. All of the children then decide to take balloons and float off to find the true moon. This introductory sequence, brightly colored...
Party “Round the Globe is screening at Nippon Connection
The film begins with a charming sequence, as a young child narrates the story of a fantastical land where a boy fixated on the moon creates a machine that fills the sky with hundreds of other moons. So many moons are there that it becomes impossible to distinguish which is real. All of the children then decide to take balloons and float off to find the true moon. This introductory sequence, brightly colored...
- 5/29/2018
- by Matthew Cooper
- AsianMoviePulse
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