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Director: Naoto Takenaka
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From Time Out Film Guide
Adapted from an avant-garde comic-strip by Yoshiharu Tsuge, this debut feature by the actor Naoto Takenaka is like a Japanese answer to the average 'Film on Four': earnest, quirky, over-emphatic and a little preachy. The meandering plot, a shaggy-dog story without the punchline, follows a down-at-heel comic-strip author whose work no longer sells; he tries to support his family by selling 'aesthetic' stones, tangles with the crook who controls the stone market, gets new inspiration from a mysterious bird-man, and winds up doing the lowliest work he can think of. As protests against materialism and the Japanese work ethic go, this is on the weak side, but it has a certain languorous charm.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: Naoto Takenaka
Producer: Shozo Ichiyama, Hirotsugu Yoshida
Cast: Naoto Takenaka, Jun Fubuki, Kotaro Saito, Miyako Yamaguchi, Hiroshi Kanabe, Ren Ohsugi, Tatsumi Kumashiro full cast
Duration: 110 mins
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