The whispering star (2015)

	Also Known As: Hiso hiso boshi
	Year of first release: 2015
	Director: Sion Sono
	Actors: Megumi Kagurazaka
	Country: J
	Genre: SF
	Conditions of visioning: 25.05.2016, Mousonturm Saal, Japanese with English subtitles, NCF2016
Synopsis: Yoko (Kagurazaka) is an android delivering interstellar packages. She doesn't have many opportunities for conversion, but wonders what kind of creatures are these humans.
Review: As first movie in the Nippon Connection in Frankfurt-am-Main, I choosed one of my favorite Japanese directors, Sion Sono. The movie has been shot in the evacuation zones around Fukushima with participation of many local amateur actors. This is the main originality.  The movie is slow. There is not much and, if any, repeated dialogues. This makes the wonderful plot down.  As usual in Sion Sono the originality is full of poetry. The few remaining humans in a far future behave like the few remaining humans in the evacuated zone of Fukushima. There is a lot of despair in the naked and apocalyptical landscapes. There is a lot of quiet crazyness in the few humans met by Yoko.  The fact of having neither many humans nor many androids makes it impossible to me to give a context to this world. Did the androids replace humans? Are all these humans survivors of a war?  Unfortunately there are not many indices given in the movie.
Rating: 2 /10