Based on Keiichiro Hirano’s best-selling novel “Machine no Owari ni”, featuring a rather large budget that allowed Hiroshi Nishitani to cast Masaharu Fukuyama and Yuriko Ishida in the protagonist roles, and to shoot in Japan, Paris and New York, “At the End of the Matinee” had all the prerequisites of becoming a masterpiece. A number of issues, though, prevented it from reaching that level.
“At the End of the Matinee” is screening at Toronto Japanese Film Festival
Satoshi Makino is a brilliant classical guitarist who performs at the world’s top concert theaters, but he still is in constant search of musical perfection. Furthermore, he has a captivating persona and is quite popular, although he is not exactly a people’s person, with his only friends actually being his manager, Sanae, and Keiko, the representative of the record label he has a contract with. During one of his tours,...
“At the End of the Matinee” is screening at Toronto Japanese Film Festival
Satoshi Makino is a brilliant classical guitarist who performs at the world’s top concert theaters, but he still is in constant search of musical perfection. Furthermore, he has a captivating persona and is quite popular, although he is not exactly a people’s person, with his only friends actually being his manager, Sanae, and Keiko, the representative of the record label he has a contract with. During one of his tours,...
- 10/12/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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