Big Man Japan

Dai-Nihonjin

Japan

2007

113 Min

Color

1.85:1

Japanese

Currently 3.2/5 Stars.
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EXEC Hiroshi Osaki, Hisaya Shiraiwa, Isao Yoshino

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

PROD DES Etsuko Aikô, Yuji Hayashida

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

Director

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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Rukii Naraya

16Oct12

really want to watch this!

Henrique Amud

22Aug12

If you wanna do a bonkers film you got go all in balls deep and that's just what Hitoshi Matsumoto did. A kinda flowed film with glacial pace, but really a rewarding experience.

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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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.