Golden Slumber
Gôruden suranbâ
Japan
2010
139 Min
Color
Japanese
Synopsis
When easy-going Aoyagi meets an old friend for a fishing trip, he ends up drugged, framed for the Prime Minister’s assassination, and on the run from corrupt cops. It’s only the beginning of what quickly becomes the worst, weirdest day of his life. But he’ll get by with a little help from his friends, who include a famous pop diva, a rockabilly deliveryman, a crippled old gangster, and the world’s most cheerful serial killer. Among the many puzzles of this twisty, clever film is how Nakamura manages to sneak a genuinely moving tribute to friendship into the madcap procession of perilous events. No matter what befalls Aoyagi, his friends and parents believe in him because of his steadfast, almost irrational pleasantness. –Los Angeles Film Festival
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Yoshihiro Nakamura
Yoshihiro Nakamura (中村義洋 Nakamura Yoshihiro?) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter, best known for his 2005 horror film Būsu or The Booth. He was born on the 25th of August 1970 in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. He went to Seijo University Department of Arts and Literature. While there he joined the Film Research Club and started 8 mm film making, and in 1993 won the PIA Film Festival Grand Prix with “Summer Rain Kitchen”. After graduating he worked as assistant director on films with Yoichi Sai, Hideyuki Hirayama and Jūzō Itami. In 1999 he made his debut as an independent director with “Local News”. That year he worked to direct, organise and produce many films that Broadway Co. (ブロードウェイ?) made into the “It’s True! Cursed Films” series. In 2004 together with scriptwriter Ken’ichi Suzuki and editor Tooru Hosokawa he formed the conte unit “Assembly of Little Pigeons”. In 2007 he won the Kaneto Shindō Prize given to the most promising new director by the Japan Film Makers’ Association… read more
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Freddie Avalos
27Feb11
It takes your true friends to help make you realize you were never all alone.
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Fantasia 2010: GOLDEN SLUMBER Review
By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
[Our thanks to Lauren Baggett for the following.]Well into the final reel of Golden Slumber, the climax was interrupted by an automated voice (bilingual: this is Quebec, after all) warning us that a fire
Fantasia 2010: GOLDEN SLUMBER Review
By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
[Our thanks to Joshua Chaplinsky for the following review which is being bumped up to the top of the page to coincide with its Fantasia screening today.]Golden Slumber fills my eyes, but what exactly is
NYAFF 2010: GOLDEN SLUMBER Review
By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
[Once again our thanks to Joshua Chaplinsky for the following review.]Golden Slumber fills my eyes, but what exactly is it I’m seeing? A man-on-the-run conspiracy thriller, mixing JFK and The Bourne Identity
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