Мировая премьера
Okamoto
A very artistic way of being surrounded by yakuza. Oh man, how’s that? Ask Okamoto.
Manta Okamoto is a strange young man. He is prone to spontaneous tantrums. On the verge of hikikomori, he faces reality through numbers and with a brain full of crisp ideas. He’s also the most creative editor in the magazine where he works, even if he’s always late. One day, one of his seniors at the publishing house offers him a job: he could earn a lot of money just by taking care of a cardboard box for a few days. On the other side of town, a group of gangsters are missing something and will do anything to get it back.
The film’s mesmerising cinematography wraps up a wide range of intriguing artistic references and winks to the audience and is a torrent of creativity on both the sound and visual levels, enveloping you in a captivating atmosphere. A (shy) love story in the age of isolation through a fertile imagination. A new vision to interpret and enjoy classic yakuza films from the overstimulated mind of an ultra-creative person. Gangsters, artistic references galore and a surreal way of enjoying films and life: enjoy the ride with Manta Okamoto’s “120 minutes of strangeness”.
Javier Garcia Puerto
Soujiro Sanada is a Japanese film director, philosopher, punk rocker, and active philosophy professor. The only scholar of German thinker Oswald Spengler in Japan. Vocalist and guitarist of the band KYOSHINsoundsorchestra from 2011 to 2019. In 2020 he completed the film “The purest Q”. He is a co-researcher of AI and ego research at the University of Tokyo, School of Engineering since 2023.
The purest Q (2020), Okamoto (2024)