Film Information
Year: 2023
Duration: 90'
Language: VOSE
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Synopsis
In the mid-19th century, Okiku, a young woman, lives in a tenement among the ordinary people of the sprawling city of Edo, now known as Tokyo. Okiku lives with her father Genbei, a former samurai now reduced to precariety, whom she supports by teaching children to read and write at a temple school. Two Manure Men, Yasuke and his newly recruited partner Chuji, regularly visit Okiku’s tenement to collect human manure from the outhouse shared by the tenants. Okiku, a young woman in her prime, seems to take a special interest in Chuji.
Director
Junji Sakamoto, born in 1958 in Sakai, Osaka, is a film director that after working as an assistant director, made his directorial debut with Dotsuitarunen (1989), which received the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award. This was followed by another film centered around boxing, Tekken (1990). Sakamoto became well-known for action films focusing on conflicts between male characters, such as Tokarefu (1994) and New Battles Without Honor and Humanity (2000), but has also made films focusing on female characters, such as Face (2000) and Awakening (2007). He received the Best Director Award at the 24th Japan Academy Award and the 22nd Yokohama Film Festival for Face (2000). He also obtained the Special Jury Prize at the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival in 2003 for My House (2003).
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