Plot

The film is about the utterly fantastic and eccentric 80-year-old Japanese inventor responsible for 3,357 inventions, including the floppy disk. NakaMats is an unlikely character made for the movies, with his deadpan English and impeccable comic timing providing nonstop laughs. About his Love Jet potion, he says: "I've tested more than 10,000 women. Of course, I'm not doing the sex. I'm checking meters." At a conference, he leads a sing-along of a ditty he penned to memorialize the seven hours of snow shoveling he once did to get to a university class. Utterly nutty, but also a paean to the spirit of human invention.—Mette Heide

"The brain reaches maximum activity 0.5 seconds before death, then I can suddenly create a breakthrough!" So says Dr Nakamatsu, a Japanese Willy Wonka of random invention, regularly starving his brain of oxygen underwater to get new ideas. Eccentric to say the least, he sleeps four hours a day, eats only one meal, chooses his cameras by smell and has close to three and a half thousand patents under his belt, including the floppy disk. With more inventions than Thomas Edison and a serious belief that he will live to the ripe old age of 144, Dr Nakamatsu makes for one of the most interesting subjects of a documentary imaginable. Danish filmmaker Kaspar Astrup Schröder goes down the rabbit hole with Nakamatsu and finds an odd world of gadgets and gizmos where the inventor is king.—Anonymous

Dr. Nakamats is a cult figure in Japan and a famous inventor with over 3400 patents. He is about to celebrate his 80th birthday, still feeling young and full of energy. He is convinced that he will live to be 144 years old. But how will Dr. Nakamats reach this goal? The film follows this extraordinary Japanese celebrity on his life-prolonging mission whilst delving into new inventions.—Anonymous

Meet Dr. NakaMats, octogenarian, demi-god in his native Japan, and the worlds most prolific inventor, holding over 3300 patents. Edison by comparison had only 1,093. Some of his most famous include: the floppy disk, the CD, the DVD, the taxi cab meter, Cinemascope and even Karaoke. Here, in a vivid, often comic tour de force, Danish filmmaker Kaspar Asrtrup Schröeder takes us through the eccentric world of the great man.

NakaMats lifestyle is unorthodox. He believes that oxygen is bad for creativity so daily he holds himself underwater until half a second before death, this being the time when apparently his best ideas emerge. Although he is 82, he refers to himself as middle aged and swears he can make it to 144. In pursuit of this, he has photographed and tested the effects of every single meal hes eaten over the last 34 years, a feat for which in 2005 he won the Ig Noble Prize for scientific achievements.

Yet the unstoppable Dr. NakaMats isnt always easy to get along with having been known to forcefully cajole colleagues into singing songs in praise of his tenacity. And his inventions? Well, theyre not always that successful. The Love Jet, a powerful aphrodisiac and Dr. NakaMats Brain Drink are two of his more spectacular failures. But this is a man who doesnt let small missteps allow him to falter - no, NakaMats is a unique pioneer and force of nature - a fact Schröeder's film captures with great joy.