Keeping up an unassuming facade is one of the many facets within the thriller genre, which often makes it much more fascinating to observe the perpetrator than any other character. It is perhaps not so much the deeds he or she commits but rather the difficult performance of balancing these interior, dark urges, or maybe coming to grips with the emotional turmoil as a consequence to whatever these acts are. Among many other issues, these ideas are what drove director Dai Sako when approaching “Drive Into Night”, a blend of drama and thriller, following the path of a man becoming a perpetrator and how he deals with the aforementioned issues. In his statement, Sako explains he wanted to talk about the idea that pressing moral matters and the “negative energy” defining Japanese society are at the core of this project.
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- 4/4/2023
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Natsuka Kusano's Domains is exclusively showing March 12 - April 10, 2020 in Mubi's Undiscovered series.For her second feature, Domains, Natsuka Kusano wanted to make a film that can witness an actor's transformation. In Japanese, she uses the term 事件 (jiken) or "case" in reference to this transformation, like a case of a crime or an event. In Domains there are indeed two cases operating on a fictional and non-fictional level: the investigation of the murder of a young girl (fiction) and the investigation of actors rehearsing their roles (non-fiction). The film opens with a policeman (Kenta Ryu) reading back a statement by Aki Takemoto (Asami Shibuya) on murdering her friend's three-year-old daughter, Honoka. As the policeman reads back her words to confirm that there are no mistakes, Aki sits, looking detached. The recounting is chronological and the retelling is eerily mundane.
- 3/12/2020
- MUBI
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