A Japanese engineer goes to Africa and his entire personality file gets corrupted.
Traveling to Africa in a cultural exchange program, a young Japanese engineer discovers a world completely unlike the one he knows. His interaction with the Africans he meets reveals to him that he has been living a lie, and that he is not the man he thought he was.
Direction
Hani's documentary roots make fiction feel uncomfortably real.
Acting
Kiyoshi Atsumi's face does three acts of therapy.
Director
Susumu Hani
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Japan's post-war identity crisis, the film reverses typical colonial narratives by making the Japanese the 'civilized' outsider confronting his own assumptions.
Director Susumu Hani was a documentary pioneer who insisted on shooting in Tanzania with non-professional actors; Atsumi was a famous comedian playing against type.
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