Hajime Sawatari

Películas

El chico más bello del mundo
Self
En 1970, el cineasta Luchino Visconti viajó por toda Europa en busca del chico perfecto para personificar la belleza absoluta en su adaptación de "Muerte en Venecia" de Thomas Mann. En Estocolmo descubrió a Björn Andrésen, un tímido adolescente de 15 años, a quien llevó a la fama internacional de la noche a la mañana y llevó a pasar un corto pero intenso tramo de su turbulenta juventud entre el Lido de Venecia, Londres, el Festival de Cine de Cannes y el tan lejano Japón. Cincuenta años después del estreno de "Muerte en Venecia", Björn nos lleva a un viaje extraordinario hecho de recuerdos personales, historia cinematográfica, polvo de estrellas y eventos trágicos en lo que podría ser el último intento de él para finalmente volver a encarrilar su vida.
Kidnapping Blues
Photographer
A man and a little girl meet in a bicycle parking in Tokyo. The little girl says she wants to watch the sea, and their travel begins. The man does not intend to be a kidnapper – he asks the girl to phone her mother and tell her she's with him. During their trip they meet various people, but they always must continue on, lest the man be arrested.
Mandala
Still Photographer
About two student couples who become members of an obscure sect. The cult seeks a prehistoric utopia with free sex and without society's norms and values. The students are torn between ambient pressure and the sect leader's authority to organ music in the creative camera angles.
The War of Jan-Ken-Pon
Cinematography
Paper-Scissor-Rock wars draws an episode where the two generals portray the Second World War, mostly through the rock-scissors-bag, but also by some absurd torture techniques that bring to mind some sort of Japanese artificial 70s jack ass. To the sound of classical music, birds chirping and Nazi incendiary speeches travels generals, ever contestant in the seemingly meaningless game around at an abandoned industrial area.
Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Cinematography
In a Japanese colony, children overthrow their parental guardians and attempt to form a new society. Their plan spirals out of control and they are soon lost in a web of sexual deviation and violence.