Regie:
沖田修一Scenario:
沖田修一Acteurs:
Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kirin Kiki, Ryō Kase, Kaito Yoshimura, Ken Mitsuishi, 青木崇高, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, 池谷のぶえ, Yasuhiro Koseki, Hiroshi MikamiSamenvattingen(1)
No one thing. By the time Morikazu Kumagai finishes painting this single phrase, he’s short of breath and ready for his afternoon nap. But Kumagai is more than the spacey, endearingly blasé, and quirky Zen wizard this film might have you believe. Kumagai, in real life, was a famous painter – passed now for forty-one years – and known for his reclusive lifestyle. With two of Japan’s most revered actors (including the late Kirin Kiki) in a charming biopic covering a single day in his life, we learn that Kumagai refused to stray beyond his yard, preferring to socialize with his endless garden of critters and crawlies. Close-ups of June bugs, ants, and butterflies are not for the faint-of-heart, but the upbeat music, laugh-out-loud comedic beats, and cure-your-grumpiness atmosphere of the film gradually eases us into the understanding that Mori, The Artist's Habitat, is actually itself about no one thing in particular – no narrative arc to be traced, no dramatic plot point to arrange the film around. And yet the point is clear as day that none of that is needed when you have a character as loveable as Mori. (San Diego Asian Film Festival)
(meer)Acteurs
Tsutomu Yamazaki
Japan
Beste films:
Tengoku to džigoku (1963)
Akahige (1965)
Departures (2008)
Kirin Kiki
Japan
Beste films:
Arrietty (2010)
Han'oči (2004)
Like Father, Like Son (2013)
Ryō Kase
Japan
Beste films:
Nobody Knows (2004)
Soredemo boku wa yattenai (2006)
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
Kaito Yoshimura
Japan
Beste films:
Mio on the Shore (2019)
Hjakuen no koi (2014)
Sekigahara (2017)
Ken Mitsuishi
Japan
Beste films:
Juríka (2000)
Soredemo boku wa yattenai (2006)
Love Letter (1995)
青木崇高
Japan
Beste films:
Tada, kimi o aišiteru (2006)
Asa ga kuru (2020)
Ruróni Kenšin: Densecu no saigo hen (2014)
Mitsuru Fukikoshi
Japan
Beste films:
The Twilight Samurai (2002)
Kábé (2008)
Ai no mukidaši (2008)
池谷のぶえ
Japan
Beste films:
Yasuhiro Koseki
Japan
Beste films:
Aru Otoko (2022)
Šinobi no kuni (2017)
Hiroshi Mikami
Japan
Beste films:
Tokyo Pop (1988)
Suwarôteiru (1996)
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)