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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 PREMIEREBehavioural 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
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