Clean, Shaven

[Machine Translation] Can you hear me...? A mixed line of souls wandering beyond the noise tears at the heart of the viewer. This is the first disc release in Japan of this solitary work that will leave you at a loss for what to do. Lodge Kerrigan's first film as a director was released in 1993, a shocking work that plunges the viewer into a sad nihilism with its one-of-a-kind visual expression covered in noise. The restrained tone of the film's main character's eye-covering behavior gives the viewer a sense of exhaustion so great that it is said that watching the film is torture in itself. The sense of frustration sticks in your mind for the rest of your life and will never leave you. Starring Peter Green of "Pulp Fiction" (1994) and "The Usual Suspects" (1995), who is known as a character actor. After its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado, USA, the film was officially entered in the "Un Certain Regard" section of the Cannes Film Festival and the Sundance Film Festival, and was praised for its unforgettable expressiveness by directors such as Steven Soderbergh, Darren Aronofsky and John Waters. The film was first shown in Japan as a late show in 1996, and was suddenly revived 25 years later in August 2021, giving viewers an opportunity to reevaluate the film, which features a mentally ill person as its protagonist, both as a story and as a human being, from a new and dispassionate perspective. Those who saw the film were once again drowned in a flood of monstrous radio waves, horrified by the gaze and thoughts of the unseen, frightened by all possibilities, and at a loss for what to do. Clean, Shaven" is a vivid, sad, and cruel film that looks at the absurdity of the world through the eyes of those whose hearts are dead and those whose hearts are not. --Peter believes that he has a receiver in his head and a transmitter in his finger. After his release from an institution, he returns to his hometown to look for his foster daughter. But when he is pursued by detectives for the murder of an infant, his world becomes increasingly chaotic...

Special Feature / Bonus Track: Japanese trailer(s)

聞こえるか・・・。ノイズの彼方で彷徨う魂の混線が,観る者の心を引き裂く。あまりの哀しみに途方に暮れる孤高の一作、国内初ディスク化。ロッジ・ケリガンが初監督作として1993年に発表した、ノイズにまみれた唯一無二の映像表現で観る者を哀しき虚無に突き落とす衝撃作。抑制されたトーンのなか映し出される主人公の目を覆う行動は、凄まじい疲労感を与え、鑑賞自体が拷問と言われる。そのやりきれなさは一生脳裏にこびりつき、離れることはない。主演に性格俳優として知られる『パルプ・フィクション』 (94)、『ユージュアル・サスペクツ』 (95)のピーター・グリーン。米国コロラド州テルライド映画祭でワールドプレミア後、カンヌ映画祭の"ある視点"部門やサンダンス映画祭に正式出品、スティーヴン・ソダーバーグ、ダーレン・アロノフスキー、ジョン・ウォーターズら錚々たる監督たちが忘れがたき表現性の高さを絶賛。日本の初公開は1996年のレイトショー。25年後の2021年8月に突如リバイバル公開が行われ、精神的に病理を発症した者を主人公に据えた作品を、物語として、一人の人間として、改めて冷静な視点で再評価する機会を得た。そして観た者はふたたび怪電波の洪水に溺れ、見えざる者からの視線や思念に慄き、あらゆる可能性に怯え、途方に暮れた。『クリーン、シェーブン』は心が死んでいる者と、そうでない者を通してこの世の不条理を見つめる、鮮烈で哀しく、残酷な一作である。 ――自分の頭に受信機、指には送信機が埋め込まれていると信じているピーター。彼は施設を出所した後、里子に出された娘を探すため故郷に戻る。しかし図らずも幼児殺人容疑で刑事に追われ、その世界は混迷を極めていく・・・。

映像特典: 日本版予告編