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Kiyoshi Kurosawa (writer)
Release Date:
3 December 2003 (France)
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Two young guys work in a plant that manufactures oshibori (those moist hand-towels found in some Japanese restaurants)...
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5 wins
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1 nomination
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(7 articles)
The New York Times On Hair's Bright Future
(From BroadwayWorld.com. 14 April 2009, 2:50 PM, PDT)
Tokyo Sonata review
(From Spout. 12 March 2009, 6:30 AM, PDT)
(From BroadwayWorld.com. 14 April 2009, 2:50 PM, PDT)
Tokyo Sonata review
(From Spout. 12 March 2009, 6:30 AM, PDT)
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Illuminating the darkness of the lower depths...
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Cast
(Credited cast)| Jô Odagiri | ... | Yûji Nimura | |
| Tadanobu Asano | ... | Mamoru Arita | |
| Tatsuya Fuji | ... | Shin'ichirô Arita | |
| Takashi Sasano | ... | Mr. Fujiwara | |
| Marumi Shiraishi | ... | Mrs. Fujiwara | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Hanawa | ... | Ken Takagi | |
| Hideyuki Kasahara | ... | Shin | |
| Ryo Kase | ... | Fuyuki Arita | |
| Miyako Kawahara | |||
| Chiaki Kominami | ... | Kaori Fujiwara | |
| Ken'ichi Matsuyama | ... | Jun | |
| Yoshiyuki Morishita | ... | Mori | |
| Sayuri Oyamada | ... | Miho Nimura | |
| Ryô | ... | Lawyer | |
| Sakichi Satô | ... | Manager of Recycle Shop | |
| Tetsu Sawaki | ... | Kei | |
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Bright Future (International: English title) (USA)
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France:92 min (Cannes Film Festival) | Japan:115 min | USA:92 min | South Korea:115 min (DVD version) | UK:88 min
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The large group of jellyfish in the Tokyo River was filmed in an aquarium and digitally added to the film.
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Mamoru Arita:
Nimura, here's the plan.
[thumb toward the breast piece]
Mamoru Arita: When I do this, it means "Wait".
[thumb and the index finger toward the outside piece]
Mamoru Arita: And this means "Go ahead".
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[thumb toward the breast piece]
Mamoru Arita: When I do this, it means "Wait".
[thumb and the index finger toward the outside piece]
Mamoru Arita: And this means "Go ahead".
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Kyoshi Kurosawa is becoming one of my favorite current filmmakers, and the further he gets from conventional horror and shock, the better I think he is.
Deeper meanings mingle with absurdist humor, and the kind of chance occurrences that enliven the fiction of Paul Auster and Haruki Murakami also figure heavily in Kurosawa's films; cinematically, everything from Lynch or Fellini to Don Siegel can be a touchstone for further exploration.
BRIGHT FUTURE is like an improved CHARISMA - more refined, less loony, and considerably more poetic, but K Kurosawa's many concerns - trashing of the environment, a sense of depersonalization (and discreet nihilism) in younger/future generations, the erosion of a society's cohesiveness (especially when that erosion originates within, and not from some external source) - are handled very well - the last shot offers his darkest humor, with the cross-generational understanding becoming something quietly heroic evoking certain past masters of Japanese film. A sense that - if younger generations have drifted towards a nihilism that could destroy them or you, it is balanced by an equally withering take on the older generations that somehow let them down; this film in many ways visualizes the idea of getting over it, and moving on with life (after presenting some of the consequences for not doing so).
Tadanobu Asano's presence here is somewhat hyped (definitely on the DVD cover), undoubtedly due to his ascendant global stardom, but his performance is eclipsed by co-stars Joe Odagiri and Tatsuya Fuji, who both deliver dynamic performances of great range and control.
Mysterious, poetic, open to many interpretations, and one of Kyoshi Kurosawa's finest.