Akira Nakao, Aya Enjôji, Aya Enyoji
Centers on a talentless-but-dedicated painter named Machisu who, with the support of his long-suffering wife, continues pursuing his dream as an artist despite his lack of success.
Akira Nakao, Aya Enjôji, Eri Tokunaga
Centers on a talentless-but-dedicated painter named Machisu who, with the support of his long-suffering wife, continues pursuing his dream as an artist despite his lack of success.
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August 31, 2009
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April 7, 2009
Kitano keeps doing his personal movies. In his last two movies we saw the "actor Kitano" and the "film maker Kitano", now it's time to see the "artist Kitano".
First we see a kid whose dream is to be a painter, then we see him struggling as a young man and the real show begins...( read more) -
March 27, 2009
This is a sad history of a men that find a triumph in the art world how a form to return him the stability and the contention losted in his infancy. He's obsessed with this goal and its his fundamental destinity.
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February 26, 2009
Art es una perra.
Fantastico finale to this something else trilogy.
Not so much about destroying Takeshi like Takeshis' and Glory to the Filmmaker but more about the creative process.
Brings up: What is art?, Is it the process or the outcome?, Picasso or a rice ball?
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January 27, 2009
ITS A VERY INTERESTING FILM.
SOME TIMES NOT HONEST WITH THE VIEWER COZ OF THE EXTRAGGERATION BUT ITS STILL WORTH WATCHING IT -
November 28, 2008
A great parable about the place of art in our modern society. Sad and funy at the same time. I bow to Kitano for this...
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September 7, 2008
A great parody of contemporary art and its market. Very funny but a bit too long!
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