Third Window has been slowly building a name for itself through its no-budget releases (“Lowlife Love” is one of my favorite movies of the latest years) and “A Dobugawa Dream” seems to fit right in the company’s collection with its Sabu-like aesthetics. Let us take things from the beginning though.
The story revolves around a young man named Tatsumi, who feels completely lost and shattered after a close friend commits suicide. Frustrated with his current situation and feeling that his house, parents and the burden of choosing a future suffocating him, he decides to flee. Eventually he ends up in the company of Tsuchiro, an elderly alcoholic tormented by his own demons and a circle of other misfits including a push-over police officer, a barmaid and a dancer.
Asato Watanabe directs a film that begins as a rather dramatic portrait of depression and of disconnected youth, but soon transforms into a surrealistic road-trip,...
The story revolves around a young man named Tatsumi, who feels completely lost and shattered after a close friend commits suicide. Frustrated with his current situation and feeling that his house, parents and the burden of choosing a future suffocating him, he decides to flee. Eventually he ends up in the company of Tsuchiro, an elderly alcoholic tormented by his own demons and a circle of other misfits including a push-over police officer, a barmaid and a dancer.
Asato Watanabe directs a film that begins as a rather dramatic portrait of depression and of disconnected youth, but soon transforms into a surrealistic road-trip,...
- 9/24/2019
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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