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Big Man Japan

Dai-Nihonjin

Japan

2007

113 Min
Color
1.85:1
Japanese
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DIR Hitoshi Matsumoto

EXEC Hiroshi Osaki, Hisaya Shiraiwa, Isao Yoshino

PROD Akihiro Okamoto

SCR Hitoshi Matsumoto

DP Hideo Yamamoto

CAST Hitoshi Matsumoto, Riki Takeuchi, Ua , Ryunosuke Kamiki, Haruka Unabara, Tomoji Hasegawa, Itsuji Itao, Hiroyuki Miyasako, Takayuki Haranishi, Daisuke Miyagawa, Takuya Hashimoto, Taichi Yazaki, Shion Machida, Atsuko Nakamura, Daisuke Nagakura, Motohiro Toriki, Keidai Yano, Junshirô Hayama, Toshihiro Koike

ED Soichi Ueno

PROD DES Etsuko Aikô, Yuji Hayashida

MUSIC Towa Tei

SOUND Mitsugu Shiratori

Cannes (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs), Toronto (Midnight Madness), CPH PIX (Midnight Madness), Locarno (Programmi speciali), San Francisco (The Late Show)

Synopsis

An eccentric man aged about 40 lives alone in a decrepit house in Tokyo. He periodically transforms into a giant, about 30 meters tall, and defends Japan by battling similarly sized monsters that turn up and destroy buildings. The giant and the monsters are computer-generated. –IMDb

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Hitoshi Matsumoto

Hitoshi Matsumoto (松本 人志 Matsumoto Hitoshi?, born September 8, 1963), or Matchan (松ちゃん) as he is commonly known, is a Japanese comedian best known as the boke half the popular owarai duo Downtown alongside Masatoshi Hamada. Matsumoto was born and raised in Amagasaki, just outside of Osaka city and prefecture and technically in Hyōgo Prefecture, though he usually refers to himself as an Osakan.

He directed, produced, and starred in the 2007 movie Big Man Japan, which was shown at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival in the Directors’ Fortnight section. —Wikipedia 

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brown

11Jun11

The CG is nice but the rest is dull. The guy from Downtown's comedy doesn't translate well if you don't know who he is.

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B

27Apr11

Slightly boring, slightly entertaining and rather funny in an absurd way in more than a few sections of the film. I think you may have to be Japanese, living in Japan or have an understanding of Japanese culture to get the subtleties and underlying messages of this film.

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Reno Nismara

5Apr11

this shit's fucking ridiculous, but it's a good shit nonetheless.

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    ayundya

    12Sep11

    aaaaah renooo kamu menonton film ini jugaa. sedih tapi ya, ironically.

Chris Jones

26Mar11

The last chunk of this movie is utterly bug-fuck insane, and it diminishes what an absolutely brilliant post-modern take on the monster movie that the rest of this film is. Still worth seeing for its incomparable mashup of absurd science fiction and darkly comic slice-of-life sensibilities.

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Interesting movie? Any thoughts?

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