Midnight Screenings 2009 / Yatterman / Japan 2008
Opulent adventure, unrestrained destruction, garish colors, exhilarating antics, toy store superheroes, and gigantic robots with phallic contraptions and huge nipples – quite simply, the ultimate family film from Japan. Takashi Miike has finally arrived at the Karlovy Vary film festival!
Opulent adventure, garish colors, exhilarating antics, and gigantic robots with phallic contraptions and huge nipples – quite simply, the ultimate family film from Japan. The comic book-styled narration takes place in a timeless space in which childhood meets adolescence, although the overarching principle remains open-minded exuberance. The movie sets in motion a naïvely joyful cycle of megalomaniacal construction and total destruction in which a three-member team of bungling bad guys do insane battle with a duo of fearless masked heroes created by a teenage designer of robotic toys and his girlfriend. Yatterman, a dramatization of the 1970s screwball anime series of the same name, provides a nonstop ride full of spontaneous attractions, wild exaggerations, and phantasmagoric sequences. The classic innocuous world of children’s film is permeated by lewd gags and subversive humor revealing the absurdity of generic clichés.
111 min / Color, 35 mm
Director Takashi Miike
/ Screenplay Masashi Sogo
/ Dir. of Photography Hideo Yamamoto
/ Music Tadayuki Yamamoto
/ Editor Kenji Yamashita
/ Producer Yoshinori Chiba, Akira Yamamoto, Takahiro Sato
/ Production Nikkatsu Corporation
/ Cast Sho Sakurai, Saki Fukuda, Katsuhiro Namase, Kendo Kobayashi, Anri Okamoto, Sadawo Abe, Kyoko Fukada
/ Contact Nikkatsu Corporation
www: www.yatterman-movie.com
Takashi Miike (b. 1960, Jao, Japan) gained his international reputation as the "Japanese Tarantino” through excessive scenes of bizarre violence in such films as Audition (1999) and Ichi the Killer (Koroshiya 1, 2001). But Miike is as far from the American filmmaker as everyone else is from him. He shoots four or five movies each year and has never written his own script. He creates custom projects which he brands with his unmistakably personal style. Miike’s creative trademark is distinguished by its open-minded interpretation of screenplays and a playful approach to genre, form, and the traditional rational or causal limitations of the story. His filmography contains contributions to virtually every film category, from crime dramas and musicals to meta-genre movies and art films.
Nikkatsu Corporation
3-28-12 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, 113 0033, Tokyo
Japan
Phone: +81 356 891 014
Fax: +81 356 891 042
E-mail: [email protected]
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