69 (film)
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| Directed by | Sang-il Lee |
| Written by | Kankuro Kudo |
| Starring | Satoshi Tsumabuki Masanobu Andō Yuta Kanai Asami Mizukawa |
| Cinematography | Kozo Shibasaki |
| Edited by | Tsuyoshi Imai |
| Music by | Masakazu Sakuma Naoki Tachikawa |
| Distributed by | Toei Company |
Release date |
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| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Box office | 4,551,540ドル[1] |
69 is a 2004 Japanese film adaptation of Ryu Murakami's 1987 novel 69 . The film was directed by Lee Sang-il.
Plot
[edit ]In Sasebo (on the Island of Kyushu, Southern Japan), in 1969, inspired by the iconoclastic examples of Dylan, Kerouac, Godard and Che, a band of mildly disaffected teenagers led by the smilingly charismatic Ken decide to shake up "the establishment", i.e., their repressive school and the nearby US military installation. A series of anarchic pranks meets with varying levels of success, until Ken and his friends focus their energies on mounting a multimedia "happening" to combine music, film and theater.
Cast
[edit ]- Satoshi Tsumabuki as Kensuke "Ken" Yazaki
- Masanobu Andō as Tadashi "Adama" Yamada
- Yuta Kanai as Manabu Iwase
- Asami Mizukawa as Mie Nagayama
- Rina Ohta as Kazuko "Lady Jane" Matsui
- Yoko Mitsuya as Yumi Sato
- Hirofumi Arai as Bancho
- Hideko Hara as Ken's mother
- Ittoku Kishibe as Matsunaga sensei
- Jun Kunimura as Sasaki
- Kyohei Shibata as Ken's father
- Kenny Scott as Military Officer
Awards and nominations
[edit ]- 47th Blue Ribbon Award
- 29th Hochi Film Award for Best Actor (Satoshi Tsumabaki) (won)[4]
- 19th Takasaki Film Festival: Best Supporting Actor Award (Kyohei Shibata) (won)[5]
Reception
[edit ]A review on Asian Movie Pulse concluded, ""69" is not the best novel of Ryu Murakami neither the best film of Lee Sang-il, and the fact that a film about the 60's is stripped of any elements of nostalgia definitely works against it. However, through Tsumabuki's charisma, the in-your-face buffooness and the music ends up being entertaining and quite pleasant to both eyes and ears."[6] while Variety stated, "Helmer Lee Sang-il, a third-generation Korean-Japanese, does a serviceable, if undistinctive, job in the director’s chair. Compared with other films based on the work of Murakami (Audition , Tokyo Decadence ), this is considerably tamer fare. Perfs are likable but generic, and tech credits professional but uninspiring."[7]
References
[edit ]- ^ "69". Boxofficemojo. Retrieved March 4, 2012.
- ^ "The 47th Blue Ribbon Award".
- ^ "69 sixty nine|日本映画作品| 映像制作・動画制作会社のボーダーレス". 映像制作・動画制作会社のボーダーレス(東京) (in Japanese). Retrieved 2024年07月09日.
- ^ "過去の受賞一覧 | 表彰-報知映画賞". 報知新聞社 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2024年07月09日.
- ^ "柴田恭兵 - 人物情報・関連映画". キネマ旬報WEB (in Japanese). Retrieved 2024年07月09日.
- ^ Kotzathanasis, Panos (2020年04月19日). "Film Review: 69 (2004) by Lee Sang-il". Asian Movie Pulse. Retrieved 2024年07月09日.
- ^ Edwards, Russell (2004年10月26日). "69 Sixty Nine". Variety. Retrieved 2024年07月09日.
External links
[edit ]- 69 at IMDb
- Official website (in Japanese)