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In a whole other style then his usual, manga adaptation style, Hitoshi One directs a film that was shot in a few days with a very small budget, based on the homonymous novel and play by Daisuke Miura. The story revolves around a number of individuals of the on-kyun (Dqn) tribe, youths in their 20s, with dead-end part-time jobs and makeshift love lives, who live in tiny apartments and seem to have no purpose in life.

The story unfolds at a house part where the hosts are Kouji and Tomoko, and the ones invited are Yuuta, Kouji’s best friend; Naoki, Yuuta’s brother and his girlfriend, Satomi; Takashi, a kind of annoying young man who lives with Yuuta; Kaori, Tomoko’s friend whom Takashi is crazy about; Yuuko, another of Tomoko’s friends who is actually set up with another of the boys’ friends, Osamu, although...

In a whole other style then his usual, manga adaptation style (“Moteki”, “Bakuman” etc), Hitoshi One directs a film that was shot in a few days with a very small budget, based on the homonymous novel and play by Daisuke Miura. The story revolves around a number of individuals of the on-kyun (Dqn) tribe, youths in their 20s, with dead-end part-time jobs and makeshift love lives, who live in tiny apartments and seem to have no purpose in life.

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The story unfolds at a house part where the hosts are Kouji and Tomoko, and the ones invited are Yuuta, Kouji’s best friend; Naoki, Yuuta’s brother and his girlfriend, Satomi; Takashi, a kind of annoying young man who lives with Yuuta; Kaori, Tomoko’s friend whom Takashi is crazy about; Yuuko, another of Tomoko’s friends who is actually set up with another of the boys’ friends,...

Amy Monaghan, first known to most of us as the cinetrix, is high-tailing it from Boston, where she presented a paper at Scms, to New York for this afternoon's launch of the new issue of Black Clock, the literary journal edited by novelist Steve Erickson. You've got to love the promo blurb they've written for themselves:

In a movie issue like no other, Black Clock 15 features Geoff Nicholson's meeting of two film pioneers in "Buster Keaton: The Warhol Years," David Thomson's journey up the Amazon with Warren Beatty, and Anthony Miller's history of the cinema — from Dw Griffith's adaptation of Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises (presenting Louise Brooks as Lady Brett) to Don Siegel's 60s cult B-movie Bonnie and Clyde with Tuesday Weld and Clint Eastwood, to the 2010 Academy Award-winning portrayal by Chris Farley of silent comedic actor Fatty Arbuckle in Milos Forman's The Life of the Party.