All things and people appear in disguise
What are the limits between fiction and reality?
Herzog analyzes loneliness in the 21st century. How to fill that void or accept the inherent loneliness of existence.
The film opens when Yuichi Ishii, the real owner of this company, approaches Mahiro, a shy and silent 12-year-old girl, in Yoyogi Park, full of walkers, young people and tourists. Ishii tells her that he is her father, and that he left her after their divorce, since he has started another family. None of this is true, as Ishii has been hired by Mahiro's mother, to create the illusion that her father has not forgotten her, and has searched for her. The encounters happen frequently, both empathize and have fun together in moving scenes. Mahiro is gaining confidence, he becomes fond of who he thinks his father is, he makes confessions typical of a teenager, without realizing that for Ishii, she is simply the daughter of the client who has hired him.
Available on MUBI.
Herzog analyzes loneliness in the 21st century. How to fill that void or accept the inherent loneliness of existence.
The film opens when Yuichi Ishii, the real owner of this company, approaches Mahiro, a shy and silent 12-year-old girl, in Yoyogi Park, full of walkers, young people and tourists. Ishii tells her that he is her father, and that he left her after their divorce, since he has started another family. None of this is true, as Ishii has been hired by Mahiro's mother, to create the illusion that her father has not forgotten her, and has searched for her. The encounters happen frequently, both empathize and have fun together in moving scenes. Mahiro is gaining confidence, he becomes fond of who he thinks his father is, he makes confessions typical of a teenager, without realizing that for Ishii, she is simply the daughter of the client who has hired him.
Available on MUBI.