A trailer has been released for Yukihiko Tsutsumi’s upcoming monochrome movie My House.
Inspired by Kyohei Sakaguchi’s books on inventive “homeless” architecture, “Tokyo 0 Yen House 0 Yen Seikatsu” and “Sumida-gawa no Edison”, the film depicts the contrast between homeless people living freely in a big city with the life of an elite junior high school student and his obsessive compulsive mother. Singer-songwriter Takao Ito, who has released six solo albums, plays the main protagonist.
Plot: Suzumoto-san (Ito) and his friend Sumi-chan (Eri Ishida) are homeless, but they’re happily building a makeshift home in the corner of a city park. Suzumoto takes his bicycle to turn in aluminum cans for food money and finds things he can use from what other people discard. Meanwhile, an academically gifted junior high school student named Shota (Sada Murata) lives a completely opposite, stress-filled life.
My House will be released by King Records...
Inspired by Kyohei Sakaguchi’s books on inventive “homeless” architecture, “Tokyo 0 Yen House 0 Yen Seikatsu” and “Sumida-gawa no Edison”, the film depicts the contrast between homeless people living freely in a big city with the life of an elite junior high school student and his obsessive compulsive mother. Singer-songwriter Takao Ito, who has released six solo albums, plays the main protagonist.
Plot: Suzumoto-san (Ito) and his friend Sumi-chan (Eri Ishida) are homeless, but they’re happily building a makeshift home in the corner of a city park. Suzumoto takes his bicycle to turn in aluminum cans for food money and finds things he can use from what other people discard. Meanwhile, an academically gifted junior high school student named Shota (Sada Murata) lives a completely opposite, stress-filled life.
My House will be released by King Records...
- 3/16/2012
- Nippon Cinema
Director Yukihiko Tsutsumi will be following up the high-profile release of “Spec: The Movie” with a far more subdued black and white film called “My House” that’s been 5 years in the making. Details were first announced in late January and the poster art was revealed earlier today.
Back in 2007, Tsutsumi read a magazine article about the work a man named Kyohei Sakaguchi was doing to challenge the established idea of what a home should be and the negative stereotypes of homeless living. Two of Sakaguchi’s books on the subject, “Tokyo 0 Yen House 0 Yen Seikatsu” and “Sumida-gawa no Edison”, are the inspiration for this project as well as the distinct departure from Tsutsumi’s past directorial style.
The film is set in Nagoya, Tsutsumi’s own home city, and will star Nagoya-based singer-songwriter Takao Ito as a homeless man named Suzumoto. Eri Ishida, Itsuji Itao, and Tae Kimura will also appear.
Back in 2007, Tsutsumi read a magazine article about the work a man named Kyohei Sakaguchi was doing to challenge the established idea of what a home should be and the negative stereotypes of homeless living. Two of Sakaguchi’s books on the subject, “Tokyo 0 Yen House 0 Yen Seikatsu” and “Sumida-gawa no Edison”, are the inspiration for this project as well as the distinct departure from Tsutsumi’s past directorial style.
The film is set in Nagoya, Tsutsumi’s own home city, and will star Nagoya-based singer-songwriter Takao Ito as a homeless man named Suzumoto. Eri Ishida, Itsuji Itao, and Tae Kimura will also appear.
- 2/28/2012
- Nippon Cinema
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