Film

東村山8ミリ劇場／男心女心

1995 · 53m

This director is the worst and the best. The protagonist, Wakaizumi, makes films with his university friends, but despite being a director, he has no credibility at all due to his selfish and unprincipled nature. He has no finished films. All they have are rumours that he is a strong fighter and that he has eaten cockroaches. Wakaizumi says he wants reality in his films, but he does not know what reality is. Days seem to be unchanging. But as much as something about him hurts people, something about him attracts them, and the filmmaking continues. The well-crafted double structure in terms of composition, direction and camerawork goes beyond the framework of a self-proclaimed 'personal history film' and gives us the best of both worlds: fiction and non-fiction.

• Taro WakaizumiDirector · Screenplay · Director of Photography
• Masuda ShogoDirector of Photography

Release date

January 1, 1995

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

53m