Fish Story first published by EyeforFilm Tokyo, 2012. A comet is due to collide with Earth in five hours, with apocalyptic consequences for the human race. Everyone has fled the city for higher ground – all except for a bitter middle-aged man on a wheel chair, the younger owner of a record store, and his…
Review of film that formed part of the ‘0th’ Edition of the London East Asian Film Festival (LEAFF 2015) Chasuke (Ken’ichi Matsuyama) is head tea server in Heaven for the legions of workers who script the lives of mortals on Earth. When one of the less imaginative Screenwriters, instructed by ‘the Man’ (i.e. God) to…