Film

Hunting Tigers

1988 · 30m · Documentary

October, 1987. American filmmaker Steven Okazaki is making a documentary about laureated japanese author Kenzaburo Oe, but all goes wrong when he finds out that due to "mistranslated facts" the subject of his film has only one day to spare before leaving the country. During their brief interview, Mr. Kenzaburo affirms that the new generation of japanese artists are "spoiled, un-original and too influenced by Western culture." so, having a japanese film crew rented for four more days, Steven decides to roam the streets of Tokyo filming the lives of the japanese emergent underdog artists, trying to make some sense of Mr. Oe's statement.

Kenzaburô Oe

Jun Togawa

• Steven OkazakiDirector

Release date

January 1, 1988

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

30m

Genres

Documentary