Unloved
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Unloved |
| Original title | Unloved |
| Country of production | Japan |
| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 2001 |
| length | 113 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kunitoshi Manda |
| script | Kunitoshi Manda, Tamami Manda |
| production | Takenori Sento |
| music | Kenji Kawai |
| camera | Akiko Ashizawa |
| cut | Shuichi Kakesu |
| occupation | |
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Unloved (also: UN loved ) is a romantic film drama from director Kunitoshi Manda from the year 2001 . The production is Manda's feature film debut and is about a steadfast Japanese woman who lives in quiet harmony with herself and her environment, but then has to choose between two completely different men.
action
Tokyo in the present. Mitsuko is an inconspicuous, lonely employee in her thirties, who is satisfied and optimistic about her existence. The humble clerk loves the simplicity of things, despite social and professional ambitions. One day the restrained woman is noticed by the always grim businessman Eiji, who is wooing her somewhat clumsily. The two different characters eventually become a couple.
However, the common happiness does not want to set in as a result. Mitsuko feels uncomfortable apart from her staid clothes and familiar surroundings. The success-oriented IT entrepreneur somehow doesn't fit into her quiet and humble life. When she tells Eiji about her feelings, she runs into a lack of understanding. The social difference makes them doubt. The relationship falls apart.
A little later, Mitsuko met her neighbor Hiroshi, a shy 28-year-old warehouse worker from simple living conditions. The man immediately exerts a certain fascination on her. Mitsuko hopes to have found an ambitious soul mate. The love is tarnished, however, by a nightly visit of the spurned Eiji. The presence of the successful and self-confident rival changes Hiroshi permanently. Driven by feelings of inferiority, he withdraws self-pityingly, Mitsuko's affection not certain. The taciturn laborer envies Eiji's lifestyle because he mistakenly thinks he has to offer more to his loved ones. Disputes arise. Mitsuko's illusion of having found a kindred spirit is shattered. In the end, she fights for Hiroshi's love with tears. When the chosen one independently reflects on his reason, nothing stands in the way of a happy togetherness.
background
Director Kunitoshi Manda, born in 1956, previously worked as a co-screenwriter and assistant director for Kiyoshi Kurosawa , including for Kanda-gawa inran senso ( Kandagawa Wars , 1983) and Do-re-mi-fa-musume no chi waagu ( The Excitement of the Do-Re-Mi-Fa Girl , 1985), followed by directing work for TV productions and short films. Unloved is Manda's first full-length feature film.
A 117-minute version of the love triangle premiered in Cannes in 2001 , and won an award in Section parallèle . After that, Unloved was shown at several festivals. The work was published in Japan on May 25, 2002, and in Germany on October 31, 2002 in the original language with German subtitles.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films writes that Unloved is a “radical study of an outdated character, which fascinates with its extremely reduced, contemplative imagery”. The staging is "psychologically finely spun and, as an alternative to the development paradigm of modernity, not without culturally critical undertones". Furthermore, the film is said to be particularly impressive because of its “cinematic qualities”.
In its online edition, the film magazine Cinema describes the work as a “precise portrait of an unusual heroine”.
Harald Peters dedicates himself to the “problem of total satisfaction” in the taz . The director raises "questions of philosophical importance" which the characters have to play through as in a "laboratory experiment". Consequently, Manda's characters act “like a board game” through “pleasantly simple backdrops”.
Awards
Cannes International Film Festival 2001
- The film won two subsidiary awards, including the Prix Futur talent and the Prix Grand rail d'or
Japanese Professional Movie Awards 2003
- Award in the Best Actress category for Yōko Moriguchi
- Prize in the category Best Director for Kunitoshi Manda (together with Akihiko Shiota for Harmful Insect )
Web links
- Unloved in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Unloved in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Unloved . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2009 (PDF; test number: 91 984 V).
- ↑ Entry on festival-cannes.fr ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 20, 2010
- ↑ entry jmdb.ne.jp, Japanese movie database
- ↑ a b Unloved. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 30, 2017 .
- ^ Cinema. Online edition, accessed June 20, 2010
- ↑ Harald Peters: The luck of the unsuccessful . In: taz , November 1, 2002; Retrieved June 20, 2010
- ↑ entry to cannes-fest.com (French) accessed 20 June 2010
