After his shot at a record deal falls through, Jun transfers to sleepy Nagoya and begins busking songs by his favourite 1970s glam rock band, Exne Kedy. The music catches the eye of fellow fan Ibuki and the pair soon fall in love over their shared musical taste.
Score
Original Exne Kedy tracks that actually slap—fake 70s band, real earworms.
Acting
Takuma Fujie's thousand-yard stare of a man who almost made it.
Cinematography
Nagoya never looked this wistful—grey skies as emotional architecture.
Director
Daisuke Miyazaki
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Miyazaki uses actual Nagora musicians as extras, blurring documentary and fiction. The city becomes a character mourning its own faded industrial glory.
Keiichi Suzuki—cast as the aging Exne Kedy frontman—was himself a 70s rock star; his casting collapses forty years of Japanese music history into one weary glance.
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