Takahiro Sasano, playing the old man in the bathhouse. The last time I saw him was in the Japanese drama Negotiator 2. This person is very old. In fact, he is a man of 48 years. He entered the film industry very late. He had been a theatre actor until then. The man is said to have married a 17-year-old wife when he was 42 years old.
Yamazaki Nu, who played the role of the president, seemed familiar at first glance, but after checking, sure enough, the long-distance driver Heiro in Dandelion Mile that I liked very much was him. That was over 20 years ago, he wasn't even 50 years old and wearing a cowboy hat made my impression of the Dandelion play totally Western. Looking at it now, it looks so old. I really like the part of eating puffer fish, the logic between life and death and eating is amazing. If there are one or two actors like Yamazaki or Sasano in China, it would be amazing.
Speaking of Dandelion, the funeral director actually reminds me of Itami Shisan. He is a director I like very much. He knows the genre well, but he is full of a sense of absurdity and ritual. The characteristic, and even a major characteristic of Japanese culture, is to display the sense of absurdity and ritual at the same time, bilateral. My graduation thesis is about bilateral, bilateral, simultaneous, infinite power.
The play of the mortuary is very Hollywood, and I was secretly worried when I saw it halfway through. Probably at the end, my father was going to appear. In fact, I had a little hope for the abnormal, thinking that there is a possibility that this father will become Godot. But Godot didn't show up, Dad showed up. But at the end, there was some calmness, such a narrative was a matter of course.
About life and death, needless to say, this topic will always fascinate me. I like Ryoko Hirosue, mariable for me, and Masahiro Benmu's performance is also very good and has a good shape. I like that part of the bathhouse, that's life. The great thing about this play is that Westerners are interested in watching it, and Easterners are very kind.
When will I have to have a mouthful of puffer fish white too?
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