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A playful short film made in the style of a trailer for a fictional feature film that seems to be a spoof of films that were popular in Japan at the time.
Tomorrow's Sun
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Le soleil de demain, Asu no taiyô
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13 Mar 1959
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5th Nagisa Ōshima (after Gohatto, Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, Cruel Story of Youth and Max Mon Amour)
Light and breezy piece of comedy by Oshima at the start of his career while at Shochiku. Ostensibly a promotion for a number of young stars at the time (none of whom would become recognisable names), it’s an opportunity for him to poke fun at the seriousness of the starmaking system with some witty breaking of the fourth wall and some deliberately hokey effects for the Chambara sequence. Oshima is something of a chameleon, I find, with a visual style that constantly flexes and changes but with a constantly anarchic spirit underneath, always wanting to break down the norm to reveal the chaos…
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Japanuary 2022 №12 (Nagisa Ōshima / Short Film)
Egal ob frühe als sarkastisch-komisches Drama inszenierte Autowerbung, hard-hittende Kurzdoku, oder sein in den 70ern erotisch-skandalöses 'Im Reich der ...'-Duo; als einer der bekanntesten Köpfe der Japanese New Wave präsentiert Ōshima eigentlich immer ernstlich cineastische, aber doch frische und nie langweilige Bilder und Ideen... ein Stil der mir bisher immer gefallen hat.
In diesem ersten kurzen Trailer ist zwar noch nichts politisch oder provozierend, aber auch schon meta-parodierend und modern stellt er in Tomorrow’s Sun einige aufstrebende Jungschauspieler seines neuen Studios in ganz kurzen unterschiedlichsten Filmszenarien vor; von Melo-Strandromantik, bunten Musicalnummern, albernen Gangstern bis zu historischen Samurai-Kämpfen.
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Nagisa Ōshima is known for being a fairly serious and mature director but his first directing credit ever comes from a cartoony short film satirizing Japanese cinema. It's a funny oddity and really interesting if you like the director.
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Six minutes long; it's like a coming-attractions trailer promoting young actors soon to debut in Shokichu productions. Maybe fake, but I took it at face-value, even when Oshima's irrepressible snark turned it into a satirical critique of Japanese pop-culture. Dee-licious in its brevity.
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Although it has a different tone from his later works, Oshima's debut reflects his feelings towards Japanese cinema, making fun of it and criticising the industry in the shape of a fictional film trailer, with fictional film stars. It's nice to see the start of one of my favourite director's carrer.
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Starting off my Nagisa Ōshima binge with a little short he made to look like a trailer. Some great shots. Noting spectacular but it is the first thing he ever made, so not bad at all.
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Extremely interesting for what it is.
A studio commercial highlighting the different members and their strengths and styles.
It shows a true understanding of multiple facets of the craft and a strong capability for parody and satire.
You can learn a thing or two simply from watching the framing, compositions, colors and lighting and how they vary from scene to scene. So much style lol.
For his debut, Oshima proved to have mad chops and a hilarious ability to have some fun with his first directorial assignment. Definitely going to dive into this guys work.
May be the best way to troll a studio and the industry until Chazelle's Babylon trolled away 80 million dollars and spit in the industry's face. -
Oshima kicking off his career with a short decrying everything that's popular in Japanese cinema at the time, great stuff.
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No rating cuz I saw it without subtitles, but an interesting little short from Oshima that parodies a variety of different popular movie genres in Japan.
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I truly love this. A promo film showcasing the studio's roster of up-and-coming stars and starlets. I'm guessing this was an assignment given to promising young apprentice Oshima, a recent graduate of Tokyo University, yet to shoot his own first feature.
The would-be stars and starlets each do a quick run-though / demonstration of their genre strengths, but it's clearly only a rehearsal. Everything is bouncy and everyone is having a great time. There's crazy cuts and unexpected transitions, and the poor 4th wall gets demolished over and over. On the soundtrack, a Greek chorus of cheerful cuties tell us what we should be thinking: "What a charming young man!" "They are a cinema couple!"
Tomorrow's Sun treats cinema as…
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I think it is more likely that this is a playful promotional short for Shochiku to feature a new roster of younger talent than the constant reiteration that this is a short film shot by Oshima as a parody trailer devoid of any context. I only base that on the fact that all five of the films mentioned at the end are for actual movies and it seems unlikely a studio would finance something potentially harmful, however slight, rather than a light hearted attempt to drum up future interest.
It’s not the most important distinction, perhaps, but it highlights that while all work might not be creative work, all work can be done creatively.
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Definitely the most lighthearted effort from Nagisa Ōshima I've seen this far. It reminded me a lot of It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, just with how it listed of all of these actors and had everyone running around in a zany manner.
It’s quite silly but endearingly so.If I had to pick one of the “trailers” as my favorite it’s easily the singing cowgirl.