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Bird Cage

NAKATA Kei

Japan2019 117min Color World Premiere

Synopsis

A man is admitted to a mental hospital, despite his protests that he is perfectly normal. As attempts to escape, what he sees a crazy word in front of him where the lines between normal and abnormal are blurred.

Program Note

In the near future of Japan, a law is enacted that enables a person to be conned to a psychiatric hospital just by suspecting that person is mentally ill. A man is accused of being abnormal and dragged off to a hospital. The man receiving abusive treatment desperately insists that he is normal. He goes through a bizarre adventure inside a world where dream, reality, and fantasy are all tangled. This film lets you savor the cliché of a bizarre and strange B-films. (KIM Bong-seok)

Diretor

NAKATA Kei

Aima Nite (2016)
Nakano JK: Boring Holoday (2016)
Hikinzoku No Yoru (2014)
Ikari No Tekken: Lady Dragon (2012)
Ranboumono No Sekai (2010)
Kuru Garuzu (2009)
Shiberia Chotokkyu: Yokubo Ressha (2005)
Muhito (2005)
Tsurugi (2005)

Credit

Producer
YAMASAKI Shiroyuki, TOMOYUKI Ho
Screenplay
NAKATA Kei
Cinematographer
IDE Joji, IIOKA Masahide
Editor
KANEKO Naoki
Production Design
IKETA Kana