Four friends, infinite boredom, and the violence of doing absolutely nothing.
What is life like at a Japanese university? Four "friends" drift in and out of their friendships and face boredom, uncertainty and disengagement. And something more dangerous.
Direction
Uchiyama's clinical observation of mundane cruelty.
Acting
Cast delivers hollow authenticity—like they forgot they're acting.
Director
Takuya Uchiyama
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of Japanese 'mukokuseki' cinema examining purposeless youth in a stagnant economy. The university setting is deliberate—these characters are privileged enough to be bored.
The title references 17th-century vanity art, but Uchiyama inverts it: these characters aren't obsessed with their own mortality, they're indifferent to whether they exist at all.
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