NN-891102
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Reiichi (Takaya Hasegawa), an 18-year-old survivor of the bombing of Nagasaki has in his possession an astounding document of that tragic day -the sound of the “Fat Man” atomic bomb detonating on August 9th, 1945 at 11:02AM. At first he is appalled by this recording, but as time goes by he becomes obsessed with his memories of his life before and after the bombing, and most disturbingly, recreating this terrifying sound captured on audio tape… a process that will jeopardize his sanity and his life.
NN-891102 is the debut feature film by Osaka’s Go Shibata, the director who brought us the horrifying and groundbreaking serial killer drama Late Bloomer. Shibata uses elements of shadow puppetry, kamishibai, or paper theatre storytelling and benshi narration and combines them with surreal visuals and an experimental noise soundtrack to tell the story of one man’s descent into memory, grief, and madness.
Director: Go Shibata
Producer: DMT
Screenplay: Go Shibata, Keisuke Miyahara, Keita Ichikawa, Yohei Saito, Akinori Morita
Cinematography: Hiroshi Ishizuka
Editing: Go Shibata
Music: Noel Nakanishi
Cast: Takaya Hasegawa, Yusuke Nishida, Yu kadoya, Kenji Mori, Mitsuru Oki, Takaya Yamauchi
Released: 1999
Running time: 75 min.
Director’s Bio
Born in 1975 Go Shibata left his native Yokohama to follow his dream of being a filmmaker. He enrolled in the Fim Studies program of the Osaka University of the Arts, the same school that has produced such filmmakers as Nobuhiro Yamashita, Kazuyoshi Kumakiri, Ryuichi Honda and Yuya Ishii. An important figure in the Japanese indie film scene Shibata is best known in the West for his 2007 serial killer film Late Bloomer. He has just released a supernatural thriller Doman Seman.
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