Nobuhiro YAMASHITA 山下敦弘
No One's Ark
ばかのハコ船
Nippon Cinema ª
Daisuke and his girlfriend Hisako return to smalltown life, trying to peddle an obnoxious health drink called "Akajiro" but family, ex-girlfriends and new rivals do not make things easier. Hilariously precise dry humor and the economic slump make for perfect partners in this ode to eternal losers.
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No One's Ark (NC 2003)
ばかのハコ船
Naka no hakobune
Japan 2002
111 minutes
Director
Nobuhiro YAMASHITA
Script
Kosuke MUKAI, Nobuhiro YAMASHITA
Cinematography
Ryuto KONDO, Kosuke MUKAI
Music
Akira MATSUMOTO (AKAINU)
Production
Midnight Child Theater, PLANET Studyo+1
World sales
PLANET Studyo+1
Cast
Hiroshi YAMAMOTO, Tomoko KOTERA, Yuko HOSOE, Akiko TANAKA, Maki IMAEDA, Takeshi YAMAMOTO
About Nobuhiro YAMASHITA
山下敦弘
Nobuhiro YAMASHITA, born in Aichi Prefecture in 1976, studied at Osaka University of Arts and started his career at Planet Studyo +1 in Osaka. His feature film debut HAZY LIFE (1999) was an international success and was screened in 2000 at the first Nippon Connection Film Festival. He had his commercial breakthrough with the comedy LINDA LINDA LINDA (2005 / NC ’08). Establishing his distinctive style with his subsequent works, including A GENTLE BREEZE IN THE VILLAGE (2007 / NC ’07), TAMAKO IN MORATORIUM (2013 / NC ’14), and OVER THE FENCE (2016 / NC ’17), YAMASHITA has become one of the major protagonists of the Japanese film industry.