Saturday, December 05 07pm
Japan Society
333 East 47th Street, New York, NY 10017
Obayashi’s efforts to revisit the past of both Japan and its cinema are often mirrored by characters who explore their own pasts. As with Tomorrow (1995), The Discarnates takes this to the supernatural level, as a scriptwriter mysteriously encounters his dead father in Tokyo’s old Asakusa neighborhood one day and begins enjoying the time with his parents–in late 1950s Japan–that he never had, since they died when he was 12 years old. Obayashi allows his characters the opportunity to make up for a loss, but only by underlining how nostalgia is often a longing for what one never had.
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