Yoshida Daihachi
Oizumi Yo, Matsuoka Mayu , Sato Koichi
113 mins
2020
Japan
12A
Japanese
Yes
Digital
Part of the The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2022 Season
When the president of the Kunpusha publishing giant suddenly dies, the company faces a corporate power vacuum. Amid the ensuing power struggle, Akira (Oizumi Yo), the self-assured and witty editor-in-chief of the failing culture magazine Trinity, attempts to save his livelihood and the magazine from being discontinued with bold initiatives. He also elists the help of a fresh-faced but tenacious young worker, Megumi (Matsuoka Mayu),but Megumi may have her own ideas…
Yoshida Daihachi, whose films The Scythian Lamb and Pale Moon were screened as part of earlier editions of the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme, directs an adaptation of a novel by Shiota Takeshi (who also wrote The Voice of Sin) dedicated to Oizumi Yo, offering a comically cynical portrait of the cut-throat publishing industry in Japan.
This screening includes a pre-recorded introduction from director Yoshida Daihachi.
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