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JAPAN | 108 minutes | 2016

I punch therefore I am... A kind of psycho Fight Club about a disenfranchised generation. Harrowing.

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE

Behavioural problems force a young man to flee his village. Everywhere he goes, he looks for a fight (and finds one). Furiously, gratuitously, never holding back, he lashes out. Things get even more disturbing when he begins inspiring others... Rising star of a new Japanese cinema unafraid of offending, Tetsuya Mariko just won the best emerging director award at the Locarno Festival. His hard-hitting film unsettles from beginning to end as it unblinkingly confronts our own none-too-innocent relationship to violence. A revelation! (Julien Fonfrède)

« … la violence des jeunes qui rêveraient de l'époque féodale des samourais ou d'un remake japonais d'"Orange mécanique. » Libération

Meilleur cinéaste émergent - Cinéastes du présent - Locarno 2016

Programs

Friday October 7, 2016

Program #23
16:30
Cinéma du Parc 1

Sunday October 9, 2016

Program #84
19:15
Cinéma du Parc 2

TETSUYA MARIKO

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distribution and credits

  • Screenplay KOHEI KIYASU, TETSUYA MARIKO
  • Cast NANA KOMATSU, MASAKI SUDA, YUYA YAGIRA

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  • Shochiku
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