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Also Known As: Taberareru otoko | ||||||||
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| Year of first release: 2016 | |||||||||
| Director: Keisuke Kondo | |||||||||
| Actors: Chikara Honda, Riku Tokimitsu, Haruka Nakano | |||||||||
| Country: J | |||||||||
| Genre: SF, Drama | |||||||||
| Conditions of visioning: 25.05.2016, Naxoshalle Kino, Japanese with English subtitles, NCF2016 | |||||||||
| Synopsis: After an alien invasion, peace prevails on Earth. There is one condition for that: Humans are yearly selected to serveas invader's next dinner. One day this chance falls on Yoshio (Honda), a lonesome middle aged man without any lust for life. Yoshio is suddenly seen differently. | |||||||||
| Review: For the first day of this Nippon Connection festival the Japanese spectrum of genres would not have been complete without a movie with a crazy story. Hondo's pitch is just so unexpected and great, that I had to watch this movie. Yoshio is first happy to be the prey donated by humans to the aliens and really wonders how to taste better. All what happens to Yoshio is sad and bad. Every single person he knows and gets knowing will betray him, foul him, exploit him. But all this is done in such a way that it is hilarious. In the room there was not a minute without hearing laughters. Ok, most of the humour is typical Japanese and may look like kitschy for some Europeans, but I had a very good time. The questionning about how people see you and may want from you is discussed quite nicely and with lots of black humour. In every kind of relationship, at work, with the ex-wife, with some kind of friends, everywhere humans may try to abuse you. Because indeed humans are not necessarily good! The questionning about what is worth living is also given in this review of all what can happen to you in the last week that you do not choose by yourself. And finally one can enjoy many things, even the bad things. It is a question of attitude. And this is what changed in Yoshio's life. The acting of Honda is fine and authentic. Some other roles are strange but very friendly. Most of the movie is rather dark, especially when there is something funny. The picture is quite documentary-like. More medium-shots than close-ups. The last scene presents some special effects looking quite cheap, but it does not disturb the movie. For me one of the two best movies seen during the Nippon Connection 2016! As the director is only 23, he has a very promising career in front of him. Keisuke Kondo explained that he got the idea of the movie because of the last scene. He built then a story which would lead to that last scene. |
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Rating: 8 /10
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