Melancholic
Year: 2018Certificate: 15
- Director:
- Seiji Tanaka
- Cast:
- Mebuki Yoshida, Yoji Minagawa, Yoshitomo Isozaki
- Running Time:
- 113 mins
- Language:
- Japanese
- English Subtitles:
- Yes
- Country of Origin:
- Japan
- Genre(s):
- Crime, Film, Thriller
- Formats:
Winner – Best Director, Tokyo Film Festival
Despite having graduated from the prestigious Tokyo University, Kazuhiko is unemployed and living with his parents without any plans for the future. Everything changes, however, when he takes up a job at a local bathhouse and discovers that it is used by the yakuza as a convenient place for executions and corpse disposal. Winner of the Best Director Award at the 2018 Tokyo International Film Festival: Japanese Cinema Splash, this auspicious debut from writer/director Seiji Tanaka features an ingenious script full of unexpected shifts in genre and tone, effortlessly swinging between black comedy, coming-of-age romance and crime thriller.