Shinzo Katayama has worked as assistant to Bong Joon-ho and Nobuhiro Yamashita but this is actually his debut in the director’s seat. His effort, of depicting a lowlife man who is trying to take care of his mentally disabled sister was a difficult theme to begin with, but Katayama really took it a step further, in the process creating a movie that hits like a punch with its almost grotesque realism. Let us take things from the beginning, though.
Yoshio lives with his sister Mariko, who is mentally disabled. He works at the docks, but the money he gets are not enough, and the siblings inhabit a completely run-down house, barely sustaining themselves. Mariko goes wondering off frequently, and Yoshio has made a routine of searching for her. In one of her wanderings, she is “delivered” by a fisherman, but when Yoshio finds money in her trousers and semen in her underwear,...
Yoshio lives with his sister Mariko, who is mentally disabled. He works at the docks, but the money he gets are not enough, and the siblings inhabit a completely run-down house, barely sustaining themselves. Mariko goes wondering off frequently, and Yoshio has made a routine of searching for her. In one of her wanderings, she is “delivered” by a fisherman, but when Yoshio finds money in her trousers and semen in her underwear,...
- 1/10/2019
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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