Yumiko Katayama

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There was an entire sub-genre of melancholic nocturnal dramas made mostly by Toei and Nikkatsu from mid 60s through early 70s. These films typically followed hustlers, hostesses, hookers and other young people chasing their dreams in the neon lit night of vice, with story premises often taken from popular songs. Here is a superior late entry into the loosely defined genre: a stylish Tokyo red light district drama set to singer Kan Mikami’s rock ballads. Newcomer Emiko Yamauchi shines as an impulsive youth lost in the city of opportunities and seduction. She dumps her boyfriend and becomes a bar hostess after being tricked by sleazy/handsome photographer Ichiro Araki.Read More »

In his office covered with books where our centuries, philosophical and poetic millennia, are stacked up, at the height of his 88 years, Michel Deguy does not stop vituperating and “throwing firecrackers”. He challenges, adjures, gives clues, sounds the ecological alert, poetizes an alert thought, tirelessly turns a pensive tongue, sentinels words in their use, words and “things”.

Assuming its formal modesty, the film sets itself a great ambition: starting from a head-on conversation with the poet, to dive into the heart of poetic writing as he practices it, at the heart of his “eco-poeticological” thought.
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