This is no “Boyhood” (2014). Unlike Richard Linklater’s sanitized suburban storytelling, Tatsushi Omori‘s coming-of-age tale spins a disturbed – and increasingly violent – take in the lives of three middle school-aged misfits. In this battle for innocence, acceptance and ultimately for survival, Omori’s fourth feature grapples with the difficulties of growing up in a godless wasteland.
Omori sets the tone with the film’s opening scene, wherein two yakuza members wrestle for control in a home for the mentally and physically disabled. The rest of the film only peers deeper into the fringes of society, revolving around three teens: the rebellious Eiji (Masaki Suda), the reckless Taro (Yoshi), and the gentle Sugio (Taiga Nakano). Eiji walks in his brother’s shadow, unable to live to his family’s judo-loving legacy due to his injured knee. He takes out his anger in conspiratorial schemes with Taro, an elementary school drop-out. The...
Omori sets the tone with the film’s opening scene, wherein two yakuza members wrestle for control in a home for the mentally and physically disabled. The rest of the film only peers deeper into the fringes of society, revolving around three teens: the rebellious Eiji (Masaki Suda), the reckless Taro (Yoshi), and the gentle Sugio (Taiga Nakano). Eiji walks in his brother’s shadow, unable to live to his family’s judo-loving legacy due to his injured knee. He takes out his anger in conspiratorial schemes with Taro, an elementary school drop-out. The...
- 8/7/2020
- by Grace Han
- AsianMoviePulse
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