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In an audacious reworking of the biopic, this ensemble drama sees jazz pianist Minami Hiroshi’s memoir cleverly reinterpreted into a surreal and playful story about chasing dreams, disillusionment and the inner lives of professional artists. Closer to playing two sides of the same coin than tackling a dual role, Ikematsu Sosuke embodies two versions of Minami – the naïve upstart and the jaded pro – who magically cross paths as they become entangled with a cast of colourful characters in the seedy alleyways and jazz clubs of Ginza over a single night.Read moreLess
In an audacious reworking of the biopic, this ensemble drama sees jazz pianist Minami Hiroshi’s memoir cleverly reinterpreted into a surreal and playful story about chasing dreams, disillusionment and the inner lives of professional artists. Closer to playing two sides of the same coin than tackling a dual role, Ikematsu Sosuke embodies two versions of Minami – the naïve upstart and the jaded pro – who magically cross paths as they become entangled with a cast of colourful characters in the seedy alleyways and jazz clubs of Ginza over a single night.
The story
In an audacious reworking of the biopic, this ensemble drama sees jazz pianist Minami Hiroshi’s memoir cleverly reinterpreted into a surreal and playful story about chasing dreams, disillusionment and the inner lives of professional artists. Closer to playing two sides of the same coin than tackling a dual role, Ikematsu Sosuke embodies two versions of Minami – the naïve upstart and the jaded pro – who magically cross paths as they become entangled with a cast of colourful characters in the seedy alleyways and jazz clubs of Ginza over a single night.
Cast & crew
Sosuke IkematsuHiroshi Minami
Riisa NakaChikako
Go MoritaMysterious Man
Kazuya TakahashiMiki
Crystal KayRisa
Takashi MatsuoKumano
Yohta KawaseSone
Shiro SanoTakumi
Yoriko DoguchiMinami's Mother
Kurumi NakayamaCast
Hikohiko SugiyamaExplore the crew
- Producer
- Rampei Yokoyama
- Screenplay
- Masanori Tominaga
- Screenplay
- Tomoyuki Takahashi
- Director
- Masanori Tominaga
- Editor
- Motokazu Horikiri
- Director of Photography
- Kazuhiro Mimura