After landing on our radars with the carefully observed family drama Harmonium, Koji Fukada’s A Girl Missing received a U.S. release from Film Movement last summer and now the distributor has picked up the Japanese auteur’s latest project, the whopping 232-minute drama The Real Thing. Ahead of a June 4 release for the Cannes 2020 selection, we’re pleased to debut the new trailer. While it’ll arrive in Virtual Cinemas and VOD, if you’re in Los Angeles, the 237-minute television version will have its theatrical premiere on June 4-6 at Acropolis Cinema.
An adaptation of Mochiru Hoshisato’s manga, the film follows a floundering toy salesman who rescues a beguiling woman whose car was stuck on the train tracks. She then inadvertently whisks him into an epic series of misadventures that turn his life upside down. While his once humdrum routine was already complicated by two female co-workers,...
An adaptation of Mochiru Hoshisato’s manga, the film follows a floundering toy salesman who rescues a beguiling woman whose car was stuck on the train tracks. She then inadvertently whisks him into an epic series of misadventures that turn his life upside down. While his once humdrum routine was already complicated by two female co-workers,...
- 5/26/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
It is not very common for a festival to program a 10-episode series, but that is exactly what San Diego Asian Film Festival did, screening the whole “The Real Thing”, Fukada’s adaptation of Mochiru Hoshisato’s comic book. An edited down version of the Nagoya TVproduction screened in Japan in October, while the film was also shown in Cannes and Tokyo Film Festival.
“The Real Thing” is screening at San Diego Asian Film Festival
The script focuses on Tsuji, a 30-year-old salaryman who works for a toy company, while retaining two relationships with colleagues, one a more serious one, with Naoko, his higher up in the company, and one more “flimsical”, with Minako, a young employee. The latter is heads over heels for him but he is more invested to Naoko, who shares his apartment frequently and actually knows about his other affair. One fateful night, however, Tsuji saves Ukiyo from the train tracks,...
“The Real Thing” is screening at San Diego Asian Film Festival
The script focuses on Tsuji, a 30-year-old salaryman who works for a toy company, while retaining two relationships with colleagues, one a more serious one, with Naoko, his higher up in the company, and one more “flimsical”, with Minako, a young employee. The latter is heads over heels for him but he is more invested to Naoko, who shares his apartment frequently and actually knows about his other affair. One fateful night, however, Tsuji saves Ukiyo from the train tracks,...
- 4/24/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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