Film

Nonsensical Life

1991 · 19m

One summer day, a university student, Yazawa, is offered a lucrative job that pays 50,000 yen for two hours. All he had to do was go to a poet's house and listen to his poems. On the day of the job, the poet, Kihara, reads out a strange poem that starts with "The world is one" and ends with "Because we are 10 years old". Yazawa did as Kihara asked, reciting the poem and answering his questions. Yazawa reads the poem at Kihara's request and asks him a question: "Please give me a title. Kihara's ability to take something that would normally be "boring" and turn it into a surrealistic laugh is brilliant.

• Masahito KagawaDirector · Director of Photography · Producer
• Yasumi InoueEditor

Release date

January 1, 1991

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

19m