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INTRODUCTION |
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| The film you are about to see is a collective improvisation… Ex-critic and documentary filmmaker Toshi Fujiwara has chosen a radically unorthodox method for his first fictional effort: participants with no previous acting experiences brought stories based on themselves. Through collective improvisations, these characters would meet and develop, reinvent their stories by reacting to each other and also to the environment; the extreme urbanity of Tokyo―itself an important protagonist of this film. The result of this deliberately casual free-hand filmmaking is a truthful portrayal of youth and contemporary urban life: Never glamorized yet never pessimistic, often devastating yet humorous, obstinately minimalist in its style yet casual, extensively analytical in showing even the limitations of the characters yet representing them with warmth: a new and original style of its own that filmmaker Atom Egoyan praises as "All of this was so touching, the characters were all very well defined and deeply felt. […] The way certain compositions were resisted until the end, the immediate sense of observation. It's a wonderful use of digital technology". |
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