One of the three entries by Koji Fukada at the We Are One, A Global Film Festival – “Inabe” (2013) curated by the Tokyo Film Festival, is a film of deep complexity and emotional maturity that uses genre elements to deal with the story of broken ties within a family whose structure isn’t easy to fathom.
Nothing is as it seems in “Inabe”, a film strongly connected to the small city located in Mie prefecture whose name it carries. The scripted dialogues written by Fukada are inseparable from Kenichi Negishi’s very wide shots that remind us of how small our very existence is compared to our surroundings. The mountains, the vast fields and the vegetation, but also the passing trains, hover over the film’s protagonists, they surround- and corner them. It’s a metaphorical and sometimes deliberately literal race with time, and a search for the answer to the...
Nothing is as it seems in “Inabe”, a film strongly connected to the small city located in Mie prefecture whose name it carries. The scripted dialogues written by Fukada are inseparable from Kenichi Negishi’s very wide shots that remind us of how small our very existence is compared to our surroundings. The mountains, the vast fields and the vegetation, but also the passing trains, hover over the film’s protagonists, they surround- and corner them. It’s a metaphorical and sometimes deliberately literal race with time, and a search for the answer to the...
- 6/8/2020
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
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