Norio OSADA
Number 10 Blues / Goodbye Saigon
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Nippon Cinema ª
Sugimoto, a Japanese business man working in Vietnam, accidently killed a Vietnamese. Together with his lover Lanh and Taro, who is the son of a Japanese ex-soldier and a vietnamese woman, he flees towards the north to escape to Japan. This idiosyncratic road movie is a real action film, not an anti-war film. It questions not just one’s surreal existence during war time, but also national identity and nationality.
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Japan, Vietnam 2012
97 minutes
Production
Presario
World sales
Omgact Entertainment
About Norio OSADA
Norio OSADA, born in 1942, graduated from Waseda University, started a career as a script writer at Toei Film Company and worked as a script writer with Kinji FUKASAKU in the 1970s and 80s (e.g. UNDER THE FLAG OF THE RISING SUN, 1972). His debut film NUMBER 10 BLUES / GOODBYE SAIGON was shot during the last days of the Vietnam war from December 1974 until April 1975 in Vietnam under difficult circumstances.