My uncle (2016)

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	Year of first release: 2016
	Director: Yamashita Nobuhiro
	Actors: Ryuhei Matsuda, Riku Ohnishi, Yoko Maki, Midoriko Kimura
	Country: J
	Genre: Comedy
	Conditions of visioning: 25.04.2017, Teatro Nuovo, FEFF2017, Japanese with English subtitle
Synopsis: For an essay on a family member, Yukio (Ohnishi) choose the least suitable possible: his uncle (Matsuda), a lazy part-time philosophy professor living in his brother's appartment and good for nothing. His sister (Kimura) let him meet her friend Eri (Maki), a Japanese girl from Hawaii, who unexpectedly falls in love with him. While the uncle collects bottles to play to a tombola which first prize is a travel to Hawaii, Yukio gets an award for his essay.
Review: The story of this looser who believes he is not a looser is great! The uncle barely works and is unable to help the family in anything but talking with his nephew Yukio. Well he is unable to make many things, work, make anything with the hands, deal with money, find his way. He does not know much from the society he is living in. When walking through streets in Hawaii he follows drug dealers as if they were going to be friendly to him is sooo naive and sooo funny. In some sense it reminds me Tanguy, even if their only common point is to hang around at the home of their family, not in their own one. It questions also the coming-of-age as an independent individual, as a social being respectful of the others. From all the scenes in Hawaii, it gives the impression that Hawaii is a Japanese colony. The awards of games or competitions are travels to Hawaii, there are many Japanese in Hawaii. That is a quite funny idea.  The acting of the buddies, the young Riku Ohnishi and the already well-known Ryuhei Matsuda, is excellent. Matsuda shows again his excellent acting, after The Mohican comes home. I like the reference to Jacques Tati' Mon oncle. The main roles and events occurring all along the movie are full of naivety and absurdity. The movie has a very original story and story-telling. And I have been laughing almost all the time! Love it!
Rating: 8 /10