Deka matsuri

Škoda, že toto veledílo, pátral-li jsem správně, bylo možné vidět pouze na vybraných festivalech a do širší distribuce uvedeno nebylo. Komedii od Šindžiho Aojamy bych si rozhodně nemohl nechat ujít. Miike, který se v Deka Matsuri také mihnul, v jiném rozhovoru řekl: "Deka Matsuri itself may not have been that interesting, but the experience of being in the theater watching it with that audience was. That's one way of making and enjoying movies." To mi připomnělo projekt 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero, kterého se Aojama také účastnil. Tehdy byl pás s filmem po první a jediné projekci ihned zapálen. Kouzlo místa a okamžiku, které záznam na YT nenahradí. Jestlipak by jinde než na festivalu mělo smysl promítat filmy jako Naderiho Střih (zase ten Aojama)?

na příspěvěk reagoval Artran

Z rozhovoru s Makoto Šinozakim: "Can you tell me a bit about the Cop Festival (Deka Matsuri) project?" - "This is rather a long story, but basically what happened was that an independent theatre in Shimokitazawa in Tokyo wanted to show Asakusa Kid, but for some reason we couldn't do this. So I said that if they wanted, I could make a film for them in a very short time for them to screen instead. I had been talking with Kurosawa-san and some other directors a while back reminiscing about when we first started making our own short movies, so we thought it would be nice to go back to those days. We had the idea of putting together an omnibus of 10 short movies, all shot digitally by different directors, such as Ryuichi Hiroki, Shinji Aoyama and Kunitoshi Manda. Then we thought it would be good to organise it around a single theme. So we thought of all the jobs the main protagonist could have, like a doctor or a nurse, and thought that the one which would give us the most leeway would be a cop, because cops take many forms, from traffic patrol men to plain clothes investigators. We also thought it would be better to have some rules as well for all of us to follow, rather like Lars von Trier's Dogme project. Kurosawa-san thought that the Dogme rules, of for example only using natural light, no post-dubbed sound, were a little dull and pointless, so we made them a bit more wild. One of the rules in the first series was that the films all had to star Susumu Terajima and all had to feature one "gag" every minute. We wanted to see if Shinji Aoyama could make a funny movie! The first Deka Matsuri film came out in January 2003, and the second one a few months later. In the second film, all the cops had to be women. We are now on part five."