This Neo-noir styled character drama follows three emotionally detached, spiritually damaged characters through the dark, neon spotted, Tokyo night. Each broken by lost hopes and disappointment, they take to the streets to find something or someone to validate their loneliness and even perhaps fill the emptiness.
We learn that one of the characters plans to commit suicide ant the end of the evening; another character loses his job and drunkenly insults his boss. The boss, once alone, sits quietly in an outdoor cafe looking at his phone longingly at photos of his dog. The drama here is not in what happens next. What keeps us tied to these characters is the way circumstances provoke them to reveal themselves - to each other, to themselves, and to us, watching the film.
Robert Capria, writer, director, cinematographer, and editor, confidently urges the viewer to keep watching; we wonder, even worry about these characters. What are they going to do next, where is this film leading? Capria focuses our attention firmly upon the people we follow, achieving, moment by moment, a genuine sense of lives being randomly lived, moments of connection and moments of loss flowing back and forth across the screen, leading to some irrevocable conclusion. The acting is impeccable, as is the entire visual display that Capria seems to causally create on his small budget, drawing us deeper and deeper into the dark and into the lives of these characters.
A deeply moving, visually compelling independent film, well worth an audiences' attention.
We learn that one of the characters plans to commit suicide ant the end of the evening; another character loses his job and drunkenly insults his boss. The boss, once alone, sits quietly in an outdoor cafe looking at his phone longingly at photos of his dog. The drama here is not in what happens next. What keeps us tied to these characters is the way circumstances provoke them to reveal themselves - to each other, to themselves, and to us, watching the film.
Robert Capria, writer, director, cinematographer, and editor, confidently urges the viewer to keep watching; we wonder, even worry about these characters. What are they going to do next, where is this film leading? Capria focuses our attention firmly upon the people we follow, achieving, moment by moment, a genuine sense of lives being randomly lived, moments of connection and moments of loss flowing back and forth across the screen, leading to some irrevocable conclusion. The acting is impeccable, as is the entire visual display that Capria seems to causally create on his small budget, drawing us deeper and deeper into the dark and into the lives of these characters.
A deeply moving, visually compelling independent film, well worth an audiences' attention.