Taku Komaya

The unbridled life and kaleidoscopic filmography of Piero Vivarelli, who made Italian B-movies of all genres, wrote hit rock songs and penned the screenplay for Sergio Corbucci's Western "Django," adored by Quentin Tarantino, are intertwined in a portrait of an unsung postwar provocateur and revolutionary (the only non-Cuban besides Che Guevara to be given a Cuban Communist Party card signed by Fidel Castro). The creative doc is also a prism into an unexplored territory of Italian — and by extension global — pop culture and its unique vitality.

２１世紀、地球では猛烈な人口増加が起き、人類は火星への移住を計画する。まずはコケと古来から地球に生息するある生物を火星へと送り込み、地球化への道を探る。５００年後、移住計画の最終段階としてその生物の駆除のため火星に１５人の隊員が派遣されるが、小町小吉以外は高額の報酬が目当てだった。