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Program 8
Directors Guild of America • 10:00 p.m. • Theatre 1
 
BRIGHT FUTURE
(Japan, 2002) Dir./Scr.: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Without realizing it, the unstable Yuji falls in love with his workmate, the seemingly placid Mamoru; they have dead-end jobs in a hand-towel laundry and both are irritated by the false/sinister bonhomie of their boss. When Yuji finally voices his feelings, Mamoru (by now in jail for murder) turns his back—and so Yuji stumbles into a relationship with Mamoru’s father, a recycler of techno-junk. Shot through with enigmatic metaphors, notably Mamoru’s project to acclimatize a jellyfish to fresh water, BRIGHT FUTURE offers a poetic and mysterious vision of what it might take to change people and the situations they live in.
35mm, 92 min., color, Narrative, in Japanese w/Eng. subtitles
 
Preceded by
FETISH DOLL
(Japan, 2003) Dir./Scr.: Tanaami Keiichi, Aihara Nobuhiro
In this third edition of “Tanaami vs. Aihara Animation Battle,” Eros is the eternal theme for human beings, and it is a very significant and interesting topic to deal with as well. Both artists wage an erotic war of disorienting curves.
16mm, 6 min., color, Animated

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