Directed by:
Nobuhiko ŌbayashiScreenplay:
Nobuhiko ŌbayashiCinematography:
Hisaki SanbongiCast:
浅野忠信, Takuro Atsuki, Yoshihiko Hosoda, Takahito Hosoyamada, Shinnosuke Mitsushima, Riko Narumi, Takako Tokiwa, Hirona Yamazaki, Nenji Kobayashi, 武田鉄矢 (more)Plots(1)
Let's not mince words: Ōbayashi Nobuhiko is world cinema's last living unicorn. A 1960s avant-garde master and alternative AV-art activist with a wild & wacky surrealist style who in the late 1970s started to make successful, entertaining fiction features best described as experimental pop (such as cult classic House, 1977). Key to his world is his hometown, the port city of Onimichi, near Hiroshima, where about a dozen of his films are set. Labyrinth of Cinema marks the master's latest return to Onimichi, where a cinema turns into something like a time machine transporting a bunch of youngsters to several crucial moments in Japanese history. They witness violent death, again and again, with the Atomic Bomb as the acme of man-made terror. Presented in a madly colourful sound-and-image hurricane of outrageous visual inventiveness, all in praise of hope against all odds and in defiance of facile despair. (International Film Festival Rotterdam)
(more)Cast
浅野忠信
Japan
Best movies:
Our Mother (2008)
Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi (2003)
Takuro Atsuki
Best movies:
Switching - Goodbye Me (2007)
Yoshihiko Hosoda
Japan
Best movies:
I Give My First Love to You (2009)
Prophecy (2015)
Detroit Metal City (2008)
Takahito Hosoyamada
Japan
Best movies:
Switching - Goodbye Me (2007)
All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001)
Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle (2000)
Shinnosuke Mitsushima
Japan
Best movies:
Ošin (2013)
The Third Murder (2017)
Kingdom (2019)
Riko Narumi
Japan
Best movies:
Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit (2008)
Šindó (2007)
A Tale of Samurai Cooking: A True Love Story (2013)
Takako Tokiwa
Japan
Best movies:
Awaking (2006)
20th Century Boys: Chapter Two - The Last Hope (2009)
20 Century Boys (2008)
Hirona Yamazaki
Japan
Best movies:
We Were Here: Part 2 (2012)
Lesson of the Evil (2012)
Love for Beginners (2012)
Nenji Kobayashi
Japan
Best movies:
The Twilight Samurai (2002)
The Hidden Blade (2004)
Ballad of Narayama (1983)
武田鉄矢
Japan
Best movies:
Twenty-Four Eyes (1954)
The Yellow Handkerchief (1977)
Mijamoto Musaši (2014) (series)
Takehiro Murata
Japan
Best movies:
Vengeance for Sale (2001)
Pompoko (1994)
When the Last Sword Is Drawn (2003)
Gorō Inagaki
Japan
Best movies:
University of Laughs (2004)
Ošin (2013)
13 Assassins (2010)
Hiroyuki Watanabe
Japan
Best movies:
Tsurutaro Kataoka
Japan
Best movies:
Shintaro Katsu's Zatoichi (1989)
Alley Cat (2000)
Initiation Love (2015)
Toru Shinagawa
Japan
Best movies:
Close-Knit (2017)
The Sun (2005)
Canary (2005)
Wakaba Irie
Japan
Ayumi Itō
Japan
Best movies:
Swallowtail & Butterfly (1996)
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (2005)
Solanin (2010)
Saki Terashima
Japan
Best movies:
Switching - Goodbye Me (2007)
Toshinori Omi
Japan
Best movies:
The Triumphant Return of General Rouge (2009)
The Twilight Samurai (2002)
I Just Didn't Do It (2006)
Tokio Emoto
Japan
Best movies:
Perfect Days (2023)
Scabbard Samurai (2011)
Kimi's Friend (2008)