When economic miracles can't save your soul, where do you go?
This is Yamakawa's first feature film in 16mm. A group of university students who grew up in an era of rapid economic growth yearn for "another side" of life as they face romantic conflicts and the suicide of a fellow student.
Direction
Yamakawa's raw 16mm debut captures listless energy
Acting
Muroi's quiet devastation lingers
Director
Naoto Yamakawa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in 1980, this captures the exact moment before Japan's economic bubble would inflate into absurdity—making its despair almost prophetic.
Yamakawa would abandon features for decades after this, making this his ghostly one-and-done statement on a generation he barely outlived artistically.
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