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Director:
Satoshi Miki
Writers:
Yoshinaga Fujita (novel)
Satoshi Miki (screenplay)
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Release Date:
10 November 2007 (Japan) more
Genre:
Comedy more
Plot:
Takemura has no friends and no family. He's a student but he doesn't have any particular ambitions. In other words... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
3 wins more
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Cast

  (Credited cast)
Jô Odagiri ... Fumiya Takemura
Tomokazu Miura ... Aiichiro Fukuhara
Kyôko Koizumi ... Makiko
Yuriko Yoshitaka ... Fufumi
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Kumiko Aso ... Mikaduki Shizuka
Eri Fuse ... Sendai
Kami Hiraiwa ... Naomi
Reona Hirota ... Kaburagi
Yoshizumi Ishihara ... Young Man of Jelly Shop
Mitsuko Ishii ... Tatako
Ryo Iwamatsu ... Kunimatsu
Ittoku Kishibe
Yutaka Matsushige ... Tomobe
Sanae Miyata ... Fukuhara'ss wife
Takashi Sasano ... Middle-aged Matmaker
Takashi Tsumura ... Owner of Watch Shop
Machiko Washio ... Midde-aged Woman of Jelly Shop
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Adrift in Tokyo (International: English title) (festival title)
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Runtime:
Japan:101 min
Country:
Japan
Language:
Japanese
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Certification:
South Korea:12
Company:
Aoi Promotion more

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Satoshi Miki hits one out of the park, 13 March 2009
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Author: sitenoise from http://sitenoise-atthemovies.blogspot.com/

"In my 8th college year, buying 3-color toothpaste I thought could spare me from my rock bottom situation." Those are the first words of the film as spoken by Fumiya (Jô Odagiri) just before debt collector Fukuhara (Tomokazu Miura) bursts into his apartment, removing his shoes at the front door as is Japanese custom, and roughs him up. The next day the debt collector offers Fumiya an opportunity to erase his debt: walk with him around Tokyo. What we get is a road movie, a very funny road movie, where the unlikely duo walk instead of drive. There's eventual male bonding, marvelous footage of Tokyo, and a smörgåsbord of odd characters and situations along the way.

Writer/Director Satoshi Miki has a stable of comedic actors who work with him often and who fill out this film playing the side characters. They remind me of the North American group that came out of Second City Television we now associate with Christopher Guest movies. They share that sense of humor too, where each of the characters seem to exist in their own orbit but since they all do, they get along fine. Dialog is somewhere between non sequiturs and honest answers when you don't anticipate them. And it's all about timing and delivery. Funny people.

I would be remiss if I didn't mention the hairstyles of the two main characters. Jô Odagiri, famous Average Joe Japanese actor, sports a Dylanesque-fro, while famous Big Bad Guy actor Tomokazu Miura's cut seems to suffer from some sort of mullet imbalance. They're an odd pair perfectly suited to this low-key oddball comedy.

A thrill for me is the appearance of Yuriko Yoshitaka as Fufumi, the niece of the debt collector's fake wife. She co-starred, at age seventeen, in one of my favorite films of all time, Noriko's Dinner Table, as the younger sister, Yuka. While that Sion Sono film was no where near a comedy, Yuriko Yoshitaka's character possessed a bit of the same surreal comportment that works for her in this film. She's tasked here with playing a loud, extremely happy, self-orientor who likes to put mayonnaise on everything, and pulls it off without being overly obnoxious. Your mileage may vary but I think she's got a bright future. She seems comfortable acting.

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