“Life for Sale” is a novel by Yukio Mishima that was first serialised in the weekly magazine Playboy in 1968, and it’s the story of a young copywriter for Tokyo Ad who, after a suicide attempt, advertises his own life for sale in a Tokyo newspaper and receives bizarre requests. The concept of Taiwanese writer and director Tom Teng’s ambitious first feature “Life for Sale” is based on Mishima’s book which also has a meta-appearance in it.
Life for Sale is screening on New York Asian Film Festival
Realising he is in a field where every day he is forced to stick a price tag on people, disheartened life insurance salesman Liang (Fu Meng-po) starts taking into consideration the idea of offing himself. A clumsy attempt to do it swallowing industrial quantity of cinnamon, chewing gum and … carrots, only prove the Internet is not the right place to find suicide methods.
Life for Sale is screening on New York Asian Film Festival
Realising he is in a field where every day he is forced to stick a price tag on people, disheartened life insurance salesman Liang (Fu Meng-po) starts taking into consideration the idea of offing himself. A clumsy attempt to do it swallowing industrial quantity of cinnamon, chewing gum and … carrots, only prove the Internet is not the right place to find suicide methods.
- 7/27/2022
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
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