Starfish Hotel
98 minutes, 2005
Fri. Oct 13, 9:15PM, Rafael
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In Japanese with English subtitles • Fans of Donnie Darko and Haruki Murakami's fiction will find themselves right at home in writer-director John Williams' (Firefly Dreams) hypnotic second feature, a metaphysical mystery of in-between states, permeable reality and shadowy fantasy. Tokyo businessman Yuichi Arisu (Koichi Sato) takes imaginative refuge from the everyday in writer Jo Kuroda's mystery novels, set in an alternate universe known as the Darkland. One evening Arisu returns home from work to find his wife has disappeared�a plot element straight out of one of Kuroda's books. Searching for his wife, Arisu's strange interactions with a man in a rabbit costume and his affair with a beautiful woman who will meet him only at the neon-noir Starfish Hotel further blur the lines between�well, who's to say what's real anymore? A stylish meditation on equivocal identities and the pleasures and dangers of giving yourself over to other worlds in the dark. — S. Mockus
Director: John Williams
Producer: Martin Rycroft
Screenwriter: John Williams
Cinematographer: Benito Strangio
Editor: Yosuke Yafune
Cast: Koichi Sato, Kiki, Akira Emoto, Tae Kimura
Print Source:
100 Meter Films
Dainan Building 1F
Honshi-cho 6 Banchi, Shinjuku-ku
Tokyo, 160-0003
Japan
Official Website: www.starfishhotel.co.jp
Sponsor:
Joie de Vivre Hospitality
