Your new neighbor is naked, claims he's from space, and hears *everything* through the walls. Awkward?
One night, an unidentified object suddenly appeared in the garden of a broken apartment in downtown where the whispers of love next door resounded every night, and a naked man (Shohei Uno) who called himself an "alien" came out of it. It is said that he made an untimely landing due to the failure of the spaceship, and he lives in an apartment.
Acting
Shohei Uno's deadpan alien physicality—naked vulnerability as performance
Sound
Thin walls amplify everything: the erotic and the mundane collide
Director
Yûjirô Ozeki
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Yûjirô Ozeki continues Japanese cinema's tradition of 'gentle science fiction'—speculative premises grounded in cramped domestic spaces, following Kore-eda's influence.
The 'alien' as literal foreigner: Shohei Uno's casting evokes Japan's complex relationship with outsiders who must perform assimilation while remaining visibly other.
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