Just before the end of World War II, the Yalta Conference was held by the “Big Three” Allied leaders: Franklin Delano Roosevelt of the United States, Winston Churchill of Britain, and Joseph Stalin of the USSR. Japanese theater company Seinendan reimagines their conversations about postwar rule and power as a darkly humorous satire.
Just before the end of World War II, the Yalta Conference was held by the “Big Three” Allied leaders: Franklin Delano Roosevelt of the United States, Winston Churchill of Britain, and Joseph Stalin of the USSR. Japanese theater company Seinendan reimagines their conversations about postwar rule and power as a darkly humorous satire.
The world's first human-android acting duo, called Android Theater Project, is the collaborative brainchild of noted Japanese playwright Oriza Hirata and the leading robotics scientist Hiroshi Ishiguro. "Sayonara" is a remakable android play and has been adapted to feature film by the acclaimed filmmaker Koji Fukada (Hospitalité, Au revoir l’été). In this film project the setting of the story is largely expanded, depicting time and space in a way which can only be achieved in film, examining life and death though the communication between dying human and immortal android.
일본의 아이돌 그룹 모모이로 클로버Z 멤버들이 출연한 이 영화는 지방 소도시의 한 연극부를 무대로 펼쳐지는 청춘 스토리이다. 동경에서 내려온 신임교사와 후지가오카 고등학교 학생 5명이 고교 전국 연극대회를 위해 전력으로 연기에 몰두한다는 내용인데, 텔레비전 드라마와 같은 평이한 구성인데도 극중 인물들처럼 전력으로 투구하는 감독 이하 스태프들의 열정이 화면에 배어나올 정도로 물 흐르듯이 사건이 전개된다. 청춘기의 좌고우면하지 않는 순정, 믿어지지 않을 만큼 성실한 극중 인물들의 상호배려 정신이 선의의 결집으로서의 예술창작 과정에 진심으로 호응하고 싶게 만든다. (2015년 제16회 전주국제영화제/김영진)
Oriza Hirata is Japan's leading playwright and director, who runs his own theatrical company, Seinendan. Theatre 2 (Observational Film Series #4) examines the dynamic relationship between theatre and the society through depicting Hirata's activities. In order for his art and his not-so-commercial company to survive this highly capitalistic modern society, what kind of strategy does Hirata have and practice?
Theatre 1 (Observational Film Series #3) is a feature length documentary, which closely depicts the world of Oriza Hirata, Japan's leading playwright and director, and his theatrical company, Seinendan. By depicting them, the film leads the audience to revisit fundamental but timely questions: What is theatre? Why do human beings act?
'Human Comedy in Tokyo', describes ordinary everyday lives without any significant incidents. Various dialogues are elaborately woven to bring tiny splits in human relationships to light, and through the three episodes the characters have their moments of realizing that they are actually in solitude.
