Takashi is country hipster, work avoiding, not-so-smart life expert in vague rural-urban area in the north from Tokyo. He lives together with his grandmother and laughs at his friend who goes to real work - shoveling cow manure. On one day, a young woman arrives to the area and claims to be Takashi's half-sister from this' father's escapade. And she is the kind you can't get easily rid off...
Direction
Watanabe's unflinching static shots that refuse to look away.
Acting
Haneishi's committed performance of doing absolutely nothing.
Director
Hirobumi Watanabe
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film satirizes Japan's 'hikikomori' phenomenon and rural depopulation with uncomfortable specificity.
Watanabe shot in his actual hometown of Otawara; the garbage is real, the grandmother is his own.
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