Nobuhiro YAMASHITA 山下敦弘
Hazy Life
どんてん生活
Nippon Cinema ª
HAZY LIFE is a wonderful little charming film about two hopeless boys who meet in front of an arcade somewhere in Osaka. Both are unemployed and without plans for their future. They become friends and hang out together. They dream of a different life, but they do not change anything. Nobuhiro YAMASHITA's low-budget film is one of the most interesting films of the last year. With little effort and two terrific leading actors (Hiroshi YAMAMOTO, Teppei UDA) he creates a gripping atmosphere that has never been seen in any slacker film before.
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Hazy Life (NC 2000)
どんてん生活
Donten seikatsu
Japan 1999
84 minutes
Director
Nobuhiro YAMASHITA
Script
Kosuke MUKAI, Nobuhiro YAMASHITA
Cinematography
Ryuto KONDO
Music
Akira MATSUMOTO (AKAINU)
Production
Midnight Child Theater
World sales
Midnight Child Theater
Cast
Hiroshi YAMAMOTO, Teppei UDA, Riran KO, Hiromichi MAEDA, Maki IMAEDA
About Nobuhiro YAMASHITA
山下敦弘
Nobuhiro YAMASHITA, born in Aichi 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 / NC ’00), an international success, was screened in 2000 at the first NIPPON CONNECTION Film Festival and won the Off Theatre Prize at Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival. He had his commercial breakthrough with the comedy LINDA LINDA LINDA (2005 / NC ’08). Establishing his distinctive style with his further works such as 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.