Takumi Saitoh’s interest for directing films (apart from acting in them) is well established by now, with him having six credits to his name, including “Blank 13“, and one entry for each of Eric Khoo‘s series “Food Lore” (Life in a Box) and “Folklore” (Tatami). Furthermore, in an interview for Asian Movie Pulse, Saitoh also emerged as a rather deep thinker. The two traits come together in “Comply+-Ance”, a film that satirizes modern Japanese society and particularly the way compliance has shaped it, through an approach that is experimental as it is pointy.
“Comply+-Ance” is screening at Toronto Japanese Film Festival
The film is comprised of a series of a vignettes. The first one takes place shows footage recorded on December 17, 2019, in Bastille in Paris, where a strike by public transport worker and a massive demonstration paralyzed the city. This intro’s evident purpose is to highlight that elsewhere in the world,...
“Comply+-Ance” is screening at Toronto Japanese Film Festival
The film is comprised of a series of a vignettes. The first one takes place shows footage recorded on December 17, 2019, in Bastille in Paris, where a strike by public transport worker and a massive demonstration paralyzed the city. This intro’s evident purpose is to highlight that elsewhere in the world,...
- 10/3/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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