Based on a short story by Shuichi Yoshida, whose fiction also inspired the critically acclaimed “Villain” and “A Story of Yonosuke”, the film won the Special Jury Prize at the 35th Moscow International Film Festival, although in Japan, it was mainly praised for Yoko Maki’s performance.
The script implements a rather unusual narrative, as it begins with a number of reporters besieging an apartment where a woman suspected of murdering her own baby lives. Eventually the police arrest her and the focus turns to the couple having sex door, Shunsuke and Kanako. A bit later, we are introduced to Watanabe, a reporter covering the story, who seems to have marital issues. The woman arrested informs the police that she had an affair with Shunsuke and that turns the attention of Watanabe and his partner, Kobayashi to him. Eventually they dig up his past, which involved a rape,...
The script implements a rather unusual narrative, as it begins with a number of reporters besieging an apartment where a woman suspected of murdering her own baby lives. Eventually the police arrest her and the focus turns to the couple having sex door, Shunsuke and Kanako. A bit later, we are introduced to Watanabe, a reporter covering the story, who seems to have marital issues. The woman arrested informs the police that she had an affair with Shunsuke and that turns the attention of Watanabe and his partner, Kobayashi to him. Eventually they dig up his past, which involved a rape,...
- 1/14/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The seventh edition of the Helsinki Cine AAsia is set to take place 14th and 17th March, 2019 and the festival has today announced its Opening Film as well as Guest of Honour.
The Finnish festival will open this year with Shuichi Okita’s warm-hearted drama “Mori, The Artist’s Habitat“. One of the late, great Kiki Kirin’s last films, “Mori, The Artist’s Habitat” is a depiction of one day in the life of the 94-year-old Morikazu Kumagai, played in the film by Tsutomu Yamazaki. The off-beat artist has not left his home in decades and spends his time in fascinated observation of flora and fauna in his small garden. Day after day the world comes for a visit in the form of various visitors, each more peculiar than the one before.
The festival also announced that the film’s director Shuichi Okita will be the Guest of Honour this year.
The Finnish festival will open this year with Shuichi Okita’s warm-hearted drama “Mori, The Artist’s Habitat“. One of the late, great Kiki Kirin’s last films, “Mori, The Artist’s Habitat” is a depiction of one day in the life of the 94-year-old Morikazu Kumagai, played in the film by Tsutomu Yamazaki. The off-beat artist has not left his home in decades and spends his time in fascinated observation of flora and fauna in his small garden. Day after day the world comes for a visit in the form of various visitors, each more peculiar than the one before.
The festival also announced that the film’s director Shuichi Okita will be the Guest of Honour this year.
- 2/15/2019
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
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