BARE-ASSED JAPAN (MUKIDASHI NIPPON)

Japan - 2006 - 16 mm, 91 min.

Director:
  ISHII YUYA
Script: Ishii Yuya.
Production: Ishii Yuya.
Cast: Tombo Katsura, Emi Makino, Rumi Nonomiya, Shûya Nishizono.
Section:
  AS - Asian Selection
Screenings:
CCCB Auditori - 26/04 - 18:00
CCCB Auditori - 02/05 - 18:00

This laconic film tells the story of a young man called Komatsu Taro, whose main preoccupation is deciding what to do with his life once he has left secondary school. His biggest dream is to run a small farm on which to harvest his own vegetables. He does not even care whether the farm is ugly and in a horrible place. His newly acquired girlfriend is also prepared to follow him in this adventure. On the other hand, his grandfather suffers a terrible accident and his unemployed, alcoholic father joins in his son’s efforts to conquer a small corner of paradise. The characters in this film are warm and charming, making their way through the story in the midst of peculiar events that happen to them in their clumsy daily lives. An exercise that deals with ordinary people whose lives and situations sometimes verge on the surreal. The movie, impregnated with a delicious and effective black humour, introduced to the public a new enfant terrible on the ever-stimulating Japanese film scene and made off with the PIA prize at last year’s prestigious Japanese festival.

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