Matsuri no Jyunbi HD New Master Edition

[Machine Translation] A poem about the departure of a young man bound to his troublesome hometown. Against the natural backdrop of Tosa in southern Japan, director Kazuo Kuroki explores the sorrows and origins of youth in this unique drama. Director Kazuo Kuroki ("Ryoma Assassination") adapts Takehiro Nakajima's semi-autobiographical novel. The mind and actions of a young man whose dreams and reality are at odds with each other are masterfully portrayed with a completely new sensibility and keen insight. Second place in the Kinema Junpo Best Ten. First domestic Blu-ray release. --Kochi Prefecture in the early 1950s. Tateo, who works at a credit union in the town, dreams of becoming a scenario writer and hopes to one day leave this troublesome town. Tateo lives with his mother and grandfather in his parents' house without his father, who has left after having a mistress. Tateo's secret love is his childhood friend Ryoko. However, Ryoko has a lover, and Tateo, unable to do anything about it, ends up sleeping with the psychotic daughter of the next-door neighbor...

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わずらわしい故郷に縛りつけられる青年の旅立ちの詩。南国土佐の自然を背景に、黒木和雄監督が青春の哀歓と原点をつく異色ドラマ。中島丈博の半自伝的小説を、『竜馬暗殺』の黒木和雄監督が映画化。夢想と現実が拮抗する青年の心と行動が、全く新しい感覚と鋭い洞察力で見事に描かれた傑作。キネマ旬報ベスト・テン第二位。国内初Blu-ray化。 ――昭和30年代はじめの高知県。町の信用金庫に勤める楯男はシナリオ作家になることを夢見て、いつかはこのわずらわしいだけの町を出たいと思っていた。楯男は愛人を作って出て行った父親不在の実家で母親と祖父と3人で暮らしている。そんな楯男にとってひそかに想いを寄せる存在が幼なじみの涼子だった。しかし、涼子には恋人がいて、どうすることもできない楯男は、隣家の精神異常の娘と寝てしまう・・・。