Sho o suteyo machi e deyou (1971)
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Hideaki Sasaki, Masahiro Saito, Yukiko Kobayashi, Fudeko Tanaka, Sei Hiraizumi, Keiko Niitaka
A drifting young man dreams of escaping his cramped surroundings in a human-powered aircraft.
The story
Twenty-one-year-old Hideaki Kitamura has quit cram school and drifts aimlessly. He lives in a ramshackle tenement along the Toden line in Totsuka with his habitual-shoplifting grandmother, unemployed father, and reclusive sister, who is obsessed with rabbits. Hideaki admires a university soccer captain who has a beautiful girlfriend, a comfortable apartment, and left-wing ideas. The captain dotes on Hideaki while also goading him forward. Amid his oppressive home life and uncertain direction, Hideaki dreams of escape by riding in a human-powered aircraft. The portrait of his frustrated youth is told through radical musical numbers and experimental film footage.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
“Just sitting there waiting in the dark of a movie theater like that isn’t going to make anything happen…” the protagonist berates the audience. Hideaki Kitamura is 21. He has quit going to cram school and spends his days drifting aimlessly. He lives in a ramshackle tenement along the Toden line in Totsuka with his grandmother, a habitual shoplifter; his unemployed father; and his reclusive sister, who is obsessed with rabbits. Hideaki has someone he looks up to. This man is captain of his university soccer team, has a beautiful girlfriend, lives in a nice apartment, is taken with left-wing ideas, dotes on Hideaki—and goads him on. Hideaki dreams of escaping his oppressive surroundings by riding in a human-powered aircraft. This provocative portrait of a young man’s frustrated youth is told through radical musical numbers and experimental film footage.
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