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Director Kumakiri Kazuyoshi Scales It Back With NON-KO
Posted by Todd Brown at 11:56am.
Posted in Trailer Alerts .
Director Kumakiri Kazuyoshi has been turning heads around here at Twitch right from day one. His debut film Kichiku marked him as a talent to watch, a status borne out by his next few films before he arrived at his most acclaimed effort so far, Green Minds, Metal Bats. And then Kazuyoshi kind of hit a pothole on his road to success with the high profile Freesia, a film that did - shall we say - underwhelming business. So Kazuyoshi is now doing the sensible thing: he’s getting back to his low budget roots with Non-Ko.
Nobuko tried to be successful as an actress in Tokyo (stage name ‘Nonko’), but wasn’t popular. She married her manager and soon divorced. Now a once-divorced woman in her mid-30s, she returns home to the Shinto shrine that her family runs, to help out with domestic chores. Her father is always in a stubborn rage, her mother is always trying to calm things down. However, Nonko’s married sister, who already has a daughter, scathingly says of Nonko, “It’s all over for her.”
There’s no place to run to and no place to belong, just a backwards little country town. The only thing to do is ride her bicycle to her friend’s bar to drink with the owner, another divorcee. She can’t remember the last time she got dressed up or had sex ...
The film had its debut at the Tokyo Filmex last week and you can find the trailer below the break.
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pochiW 12/01/2008 @ 4:33pm
along with funuke: show me love you losers, don’t laugh at our romance & probably a handful others…i must say japan’s making the most watchable stories about middle-aged women! misery + affirming - a difficult mix
jasong 12/01/2008 @ 7:19pm
You may be interested to know that TOKYO FILMeX jury member Tony Leung Ka-fai praised Non-Ko because it was the first film that “made him cry” in a long time.
pochiW 12/01/2008 @ 8:03pm
^great! did they award Non-Ko? TLKF’s quite a tough old bird now. that means a lot coming from him!
Todd Brown 12/01/2008 @ 8:55pm
No doubt ... that one comment makes me all the more determined to see this somehow ...
Ichi-The-Killer 12/02/2008 @ 5:10am
ive only seen Kichiku by him but this looks good.