Here are some well-known faces from Sundance over the years, as they brought their early movies to the festival.
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Title: The Most Terrible Time in My Life (1993)
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| Masatoshi Nagase | ... | Maiku Hama | |
| Shirô Sano | ... | Masaru Kanno | |
| Kiyotaka Nanbara | ... | Hoshino | |
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Hai-Ping Yang | ... | Yang Hai Tin |
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Te-Chien Hou | ... | De Jian (as Hou De Jian) |
| Akaji Maro | ... | Lt. Nakayama | |
| Shin'ya Tsukamoto | ... | Yamaguchi | |
| Jô Shishido | ... | Joe (as Joe Shishido) | |
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Haruko Wanibuchi | ... | Lily Hama |
| Kaho Minami | ... | Byakuran | |
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Mika Ohmine | ... | Akane Hama |
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Housei Kondo | ... | Kondo |
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Masako Miyaji | ... | Masako |
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Kenji Anan | ... | Kitamura |
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Zen Kajihara | ... | Iwasaki (as Zen Kajiwara) |
Maiku Hama is a private detective working in Yokohama. Hama comes to the aid of a Taiwanese waiter named Yang and agrees to track down his missing brother. Through a series of double-crosses Hama gets embroiled in a gang war and a revenge plot between the two brothers. Written by Todd K. Bowman <tkbowman@aol.com>
This one caught my eye in the foreign section of Hollywood Video. I've heard it said that noir is a dead type of film, not so. Though in many ways this parodies the noir films of the 40s and 50s, it had its strengths and comes across as a noir pretty well.
The lighting was amazing, as was the framing framing; every shot was perfect and the plot wasn't half bad.
When the film started, I thought it was set in the 50's or thereabouts, with the protagonist driving a Nash Metropolitan and the theatre featuring Cinemascope. But at one point a character suggests that fingers can be reattached now, and then more modern cars were shown parked on the street, stuff like this can get to you.
I loved this, I would definitely recommend it.