Budget X: Berlin review

Bland film portrayed a Japanese dysfunctional family is hardly functional.

Koki YoshidaKaho Minami, Taguchi Tomorowo, Tomohiro Kaku

BERLIN - representation of a white collar family, which is frayed at the seams due to the recession economy, budget is X, such as a cheap and dark copy of Kiyoshi Kurosawa'ssuperior Tokyo Sonata. Koki Yoshida leads with the usual ticks, but none of the fascinating quirks of Japanese independent cinema, weave a flimsy plot of personal frustration and universal breakdown of communication with kitschy film technology, emotional intensity and little real sympathy for the characters.

Budget-X is set of festivals dedicated to a roof about independent films are included. In addition, it has no commercial perspectives.

If anonymity is implied by the title to go by, the Hashimotos is a typical Japanese urban family. Now, for all zombie film audition you certainly could. Under the constant threat of redundancy, Hashimoto is always the last worker in the Office of senior (Taguchi Tomorowo). He prefers it, spend the night in a capsule hotel with a colleague, who brags about going home only on weekends ", do the laundry." Son he was brought up among the Japan's growing army of "Freeters" - poorly paid, freelance menial workers in cemetery layers. Both treat woman/mother Michiko with mild irritation.

With swollen eyes and flabby face, part of corpse bride looks Hashimoto certainly wife Michiko. If not challenging you carefully place food in the just the right angle on the dining table changes curved, you supermarkets storage lunch boxes of their bulimia calls to satisfy. Watch their quiet desolation, as her husband and son about you and your meals go (not surprising, because it wraps everything with unappetizing hold wrap), should feel sympathy for you the audience. Still the microscopic manner, in the Yoshida brings her with a nervous camera, that spies observed on you from difficult angles, an inconvenient voyeurism to their suffering.

Yoshida's film language-shot-on-the-fly with a jerky rhythms and intentionally fragmented Kompositionen--is so arrogant and pushy, that it the audience of distress true always in contact with the protagonists bars. The Hashimotos are of course ' situation and behaviour symptomatic of a wider social phenomenon. However, Yoshida not the connections that make clear, yet he has found interesting new type of treatment on the subject.

Veteran character of actor Taguchi usual unmistakable presence wasted is on his non-descript Everyman character. Minami exaggerates their obsessive-compulsive Shtick. Caught in the headlights expression, a total misfire is their rabbits.

Venue: International Film Festival Berlin (Forum)
Production companies: PFF partners - PIA Corporation, Tokyo, Tokyo Broadcasting System Inc, the birthday massacre Corp., Tokyo, Avex Entertainment Inc, Tokyo, bats Corporation, little more co., Ltd., Tokyo
Cast: Kaho Minami, Taguchi Tomorowo, Tomohiro Kaku
Director Writer Editor: Koki Yoshida
Producer: Mayumi Amano
Director of photography: Takayuki Shida
Production designer: Shinpei Inoue
Music: Yuko Sebu
Publisher: Ryo Hayano
Sell: Pia Film Festival
No rating, 90 minutes