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Director Arata Oshima questions our concepts of culture and taste based on an artist whose has blurred the distinction of life and art for himself, creating a unique and controversial body of work in Japanese cinema.
Arata Ôshima is known for Shiatorikaru: Kara Jûrô to Gekidan Kara-gumi no kiroku (2007), The Sion Sono (2016) and Kagawa 1-ku (2021).
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Arata is a slender man of average height, with short dark blue hair. His manner of dress was never particularly noteworthy, besides wearing a large overcoat while scavenging to disguise himself. Neighbors described him as being very slim and possibly even in poor health. In his younger days, he resembles Ken Kaneki.
Virtuous and gentle, Arata is another pacifist ghoulwho is content to live peacefully with humans and wants the same for his children. Being a scholar and a reader, Arata embraces the human life by cooking human food and consuming it, even if he and his kids cannot digest it. The human qualities to blend into both human and ghoul worlds are traits ...
Past
At one point, Arata met his wife Hikari and had two children with her. When Hikari was killed by Kishou Arima, Arata was confronted by an infuriated Renji Yomo, who blamed him for his sister's death. Yomo's words, combined with the guilt he felt for not being able to stand up for his family, made him seek power and he began scavenging both human and ghoul corpses. Arata moved into a neighborhood in the 20th ward, hoping to start a new life with his family so they could live peacefully. He tau...
His wife. Arata loved Hikari, and felt great guilt because of his inability to protect her.
Touka is his eldest child and daughter. He sees a lot of his wife's brutish and courageous attitude in her as she and her brother collect a bunch of earthworms for the bird they found injured on the ground. While Touka understood why he kept his vendetta against investigators a secret and cannibalized in order to become stronger, she always resented this fact as it left her and Ayato alone in the world especially after his death. Partly why Touka and Ayato are fond of Kaneki is because he is...
Ayato was his youngest child and son. He loves his children and made them swear they would protect each other despite the fact that Ayato shares his resentment towards their father for taking on the burden alone. After his death, this resentment soured the siblings relationship as Touka accepted the fact that Arata was soft hearted and selfless to a fault while Ayato saw his father as weak and unable to protect anyone.
Ghoul Physiology: Having been born a ghoul, Arata possesses enhanced physical capabilities along with a koukaku kagune, and a kakuja obtained from continuous cannibalization. 1. Koukaku Kakuja: After eating left-over corpses of ghouls, Arata developed a kakuja armor that had covered his whole body. After being captured, his kakuja was used to manuf...
His surname literally reads "mist island", comprising of the kanji for "fog, mist, haze"(霧)(kiri) and "island"(島)(shima).His given name, Arata, literally means "new"(新)(arata).Arata likes cooking human food, being with others, and studying.In the first character popularity poll, Arata was ranked eighteenth, tying with Tatara. In the latest, he came in as thirty-eighth.His alias "Corpse Collector" implies that he scavenges corpses instead of hunting humans for food.In the Tokyo Ghoul Flip Calendar, Arata researched human marriage proposals before he first asked Hikari to marry him. It failed.To Touka and Ayato: "Touka, you're his big sister so you have to teach him a lot of things. Ayato, whenever your big sister is in trouble you must protect her."To Touka and Ayato: "It's certainly true... that there are many humans. But we also have our own world. And in order to protect that world we have to keep enduring everything."Directed by Arata Oshima, son of rebel filmmaker Nagisa Oshima, who had praised Sono's early work before his passing, this documentary gives insight into the man, the poet, the painter, the scriptwriter, the husband and the boy who will eventually grow up to be the Sion Sono.
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