Ryô Satô

Two melancholic high school students struggle to find meaning in their lives.

Hamaguchi wrote and directed this film as a graduation project for the students at ENBU Seminar (film and theater school in Tokyo) when he taught there. It is a three-part film: The first part is a documentary style production of a play; Then the actual full stage production of the play; and the epilogue. Poetry and written words play the central role in the movie. (imdb)

On a gloomy Monday morning, my week begins. Although I am sleepy, I put on my make-up and I leave home for work at a bank. I take the subway crowded with passengers and get off at the nearest station.

This work is a story of a summer of men and women who could never have met. The everyday life of singer-songwriter Sora, who moved to the housing complex as if she had escaped from songwriting that went wrong, was blown into the cassette tape left by Tokio, a former resident who made money as a fake painter. By touching your voice, you can cut off the changes.

While still a virgin at the age of 30, Kiyoshi Adachi gains a magical power that allows him to read other people's mind by touching them. Things change when he accidentally touches Yuichi Kurosawa and reads his mind.