Réalisation:
沖田修一Scénario:
沖田修一Acteurs·trices:
Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kirin Kiki, Ryō Kase, Kaito Yoshimura, Ken Mitsuishi, 青木崇高, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, 池谷のぶえ, Yasuhiro Koseki, Hiroshi MikamiRésumés(1)
No one thing. By the time Morikazu Kumagai finishes painting this single phrase, he’s short of breath and ready for his afternoon nap. But Kumagai is more than the spacey, endearingly blasé, and quirky Zen wizard this film might have you believe. Kumagai, in real life, was a famous painter – passed now for forty-one years – and known for his reclusive lifestyle. With two of Japan’s most revered actors (including the late Kirin Kiki) in a charming biopic covering a single day in his life, we learn that Kumagai refused to stray beyond his yard, preferring to socialize with his endless garden of critters and crawlies. Close-ups of June bugs, ants, and butterflies are not for the faint-of-heart, but the upbeat music, laugh-out-loud comedic beats, and cure-your-grumpiness atmosphere of the film gradually eases us into the understanding that Mori, The Artist's Habitat, is actually itself about no one thing in particular – no narrative arc to be traced, no dramatic plot point to arrange the film around. And yet the point is clear as day that none of that is needed when you have a character as loveable as Mori. (San Diego Asian Film Festival)
(plus)Acteurs·trices
Tsutomu Yamazaki
Japon
Meilleurs films :
Entre le ciel et l'enfer (1963)
Barberousse (1965)
Departures (2008)
Kirin Kiki
Japon
Meilleurs films :
Arrietty le petit monde des chapardeurs (2010)
Han'oči (2004)
Tel père, tel fils (2013)
Ryō Kase
Japon
Meilleurs films :
Nobody Knows (2004)
Soredemo boku wa yattenai (2006)
Lettres d'Iwo Jima (2006)
Kaito Yoshimura
Japon
Meilleurs films :
Mio on the Shore (2019)
Hjakuen no koi (2014)
Sekigahara (2017)
Ken Mitsuishi
Japon
Meilleurs films :
Eureka (2000)
Soredemo boku wa yattenai (2006)
Love Letter (1995)
青木崇高
Japon
Meilleurs films :
Tada, kimi o aišiteru (2006)
True Mothers (2020)
Kenshin - La fin de la légende (2014)
Mitsuru Fukikoshi
Japon
Meilleurs films :
Le Samouraï du crépuscule (2002)
Kábé (2008)
Love Exposure (2008)
池谷のぶえ
Japon
Meilleurs films :
Yasuhiro Koseki
Japon
Meilleurs films :
A Man (2022)
Šinobi no kuni (2017)
Hiroshi Mikami
Japon
Meilleurs films :
Tokyo Pop (1988)
Swallowtail Butterfly (1996)
Mishima - Une vie en quatre chapitres (1985)