Synopsis
Japanese film director YAMASHITA Nobuhiro's, who's familiar to us for Linda Linda Linda, new movie. The early 1990s, a small village in Japan. Kotaro, a hard working officer who works at the local police station, and troublemaker Hikaru, who works on a chicken farm, are twin brothers but share nothing in common. One day, Hikaru hits a woman with his car while driving through the snow but flees the scene out of fear. The woman is from out of town and had come to town with her boyfriend in search of a hidden gold bar at the bottom of the village lake. Although not severely injured, the woman and her boyfriend decide to take advantage of Hikaru's hit-and-run and use him to do all their dirty work. His twin brother on the other hand, not only has to constantly get his brother out of trouble, but he is also in danger of having to clean up the mess his unemployed incompetent father leaves behind. In the midst of this, Kotaro's father leaves a young girl from the village pregnant. Set in the early 1990s, a time when the economic bubble had burst, the middle class had crashed, and fathers had begun to lose their stance in society, the film explores the conflicts within the younger generation, through events occurring in a small village in the countryside. The sense of helplessness and lack of hope of the younger generation, is conveyed through reckless sexual desires, criminal acts and violence and the people who don't care to put up a fight against it but just choose to give in. Despite the rather serious and heavy theme, YAMASHITA Nobuhiro shows off a distinct flavor of humor and moderate but extraordinary visual scenes. The movie is based on a true story, and the last scene, where Kotaro randomly fires shots off into the sky, seems to have compressed all of what is to be said in the movie into one. (JUNG Ji Yeon)