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1997(1st) ~ 2024(28th)
Off the Fantastic
IRIE Yu
Japan2008 79 min DVCAM C International Premiere
A young unemployed guy living in the suburb of Fukuyama in Saitama Prefecture where there isn"t even a record store passionately dreamed to become a hip-hop superstar. Tom, a waiter at a strip bar, Mighty who helps his family"s broccoli farm and Ikku, an unemployed rapper are even outcasts from the hip-hop crew "Sho-Gung". However, they are so much passionate about hip-hop. One day, their first performance is suddenly scheduled and the buddies make all out efforts to prepare for their first stage. On the day of their first performance, the audience who greets the buddies is the elderly who have never even heard of hip-hop music. Can they make their performance and sing the rhymes "no education! no tax!" in front of the Fukuyama"s local education officials and tax officials?
Having drawn attention with his first short movie Obsession (2003) in Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival, director IRIE Yu won Grand Prix at 2009 Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival. This 29-year-old director gave up flashy directing techniques that he has shown in the commercials and TV dramas that he directed but bluntly takes a shoot of these pathetic youngsters with long take shots. The sloppy life of the buddies and their clumsy music are shown in full frontal, but they will fascinate the audience with their innocent silliness. The film is a hip-hop memorandum of the ordinary youngsters who have never received and will never receive attention. (AHN Sung Min)