2007• Action•Comedy •01h53
Daisato is a middle aged man who leads an indifferent ordinary life, he is destined for what has been handed down through generations. His responsibility is to contribute to the peacekeeping, but the general public, which is accustomed to maintaining it, disregarded for the responsibility, what is worse, it becomes disagreeable. The story describes emotion in daily life with the relationship among people around, such as in hard work, relationship with the divorced wife and daughter, nursing care for his grandfather suffering from dementia, etc.
=> VOD language settings: original version, subtitles available in English, Spanish and Portuguese
Director: Hitoshi Matsumoto
Casting: Hitoshi Matsumoto, Riki Takeuchi, Ryunosuke Kamiki
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese
The DVD set contains three masterpieces by Hitoshi Matsumoto: Big man Japan, Symbol and Saya Zamurai.
In Symbol, A man wakes up and mysteriously finds himself trapped in an empty, white rectangular room, wearing clownish bright yellow polka dot pajamas. Where is he? Who did this to him? How did he end up here? Will he manage to make him escape to safety?
In Saya Zamurai, a samurai without a saber repudiated by all and wandering miserably on the roads with his daughter falls into the hands of a lord with eccentric desires. To keep his own life safe, he has to take up a final challenge: to make the sad young prince smile again.
Cannes Directors' Fortnight 2007