Late Mitsuo Yanagimachi’s last work was rather successful, winning Best Film at the Japanese Eyes section of Tokyo International Festival, screening in the Director’s Fortnight section at Cannes, getting picked up for distribution in the United States, and garnering rave reviews from all over the world.
The story is set on the campus of Rikkyo University in Tokyo and its rather meta script revolves around a group of students from the literature department’s “film workshop”, who are about to start shooting their movie “The Bored Murderer”. As highlighted in the impressive long shot that opens the movie, everyone in the crew are in a rush to start shooting, but the lead actor drops out in the last minute, throwing their preparations in disarray. Ikeda, a stage play actor that is eventually tasked with the role proves a rather unusual persona, while Matsukawa, the director,...
The story is set on the campus of Rikkyo University in Tokyo and its rather meta script revolves around a group of students from the literature department’s “film workshop”, who are about to start shooting their movie “The Bored Murderer”. As highlighted in the impressive long shot that opens the movie, everyone in the crew are in a rush to start shooting, but the lead actor drops out in the last minute, throwing their preparations in disarray. Ikeda, a stage play actor that is eventually tasked with the role proves a rather unusual persona, while Matsukawa, the director,...
- 2/12/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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