Out of This World

Kono yo no sotoe – Club Shinchugun, feature film, 2004.

DIRECTED BY: Junji Sakamoto

Out of This World

CAST:
Masato Hagiwara (Kentaro Hirooka),
Peter Mullan (Jim),
Shea Whigham (Russell Reade),
Jô Odagiri (Shozo Ikeshima),
Mitch (Hiroyuki Asakawa)

SCRIPT:
Junji Sakamoto

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Norimichi Kasamatsu

Synopsis:
During WW II, jazz was banned in Japan as the music of the enemy, but after the war, during the American occupation, it became very popular and flourished. A Japanese band The Lucky Strikers plays in an American military music club. Each of the band members has his own musical and life story. The club’s owner recently lost his son Danny, thus it is forbidden to play the song Danny Boy

35 mm, color, 123 min