Hunger Striker
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Director: Masao Adachi. Writer: Franz Kafka (short story), Masao Adachi. Producer: Toshihiko Onozawa. Cinematographer: Yutaka Yamazaki. Release Date: February 27, 2016. Runtime: 104 min. Language: Japanese. Country: Japan. Plo. A man appears and sits on the street.
Jul 5, 2016 · Artist of FastingJapan 104 minsA provocative re-interpretation of Kafka from one of Japan's most forceful and controversial filmmakers.An unnamed, silent man...
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Feb 27, 2016 · Artist of Fasting: Directed by Masao Adachi. With Hiroshi Yamamoto, Ukan Abeta, Shôichi Honda, Juri Ihata. Without saying any word, a man decide to get on hunger strike, creating a great mess around him and also media attention.
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- Drama
- Masao Adachi
- 2016-02-27
Hunger artists or starvation artists were performers, common in Europe and America in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries, who starved themselves for extended periods of time, for the amusement of paying audiences.
Inspired by Franz Kafka’s short story A Hunger Artist, the satirical comedy follows a silent nameless man who stages what appears to be a hunger strike in an outdoor shopping district in Utsunomiya city, Tochigi prefecture.
Review by Z. W. Lewis★★★★. Review for Japan Cuts over at InRO: The most bluntly political of Japanese filmmakers, Masao Adachi returns to a comfortable controversy with his latest, The Artist of Fasting.
Jul 6, 2024 · Synopsis. It’s certainly no coincidence that moviemaker and militant revolutionary Masao Adachi opted to make a film based on one of Franz Kafka’s last and undeniably most exquisite short stories, A Hunger Artist, which the writer was still editing the day before he died.
