Hideo Jojo‘s output does not compare to that of any other director. Next to Takashi Miike, the 49-year-old Tokyo native is probably Japan’s most productive filmmaker. Having released a record-breaking eleven movies in 2023, Jojo takes it easy this year. “A Bad Summer” is only his second release for 2025. And let’s not forget the mini-series “Love Me to Death,” recently shown on Abema.
A Bad Summer is screening in Far East FIlm Festival
The adaption of Tamehito Somei‘s novel deals with the conflict between work ethic and love. Instructed by the yakuza, who use the welfare system for a scam to make a profit, a good-natured civil servant named Sasaki, responsible for processing welfare applications and assisting welfare recipients, becomes part of a blackmailing case between his colleague and one of his female clients. When suspicions arise that one of his colleagues is soliciting sexual favors from a recipient,...
A Bad Summer is screening in Far East FIlm Festival
The adaption of Tamehito Somei‘s novel deals with the conflict between work ethic and love. Instructed by the yakuza, who use the welfare system for a scam to make a profit, a good-natured civil servant named Sasaki, responsible for processing welfare applications and assisting welfare recipients, becomes part of a blackmailing case between his colleague and one of his female clients. When suspicions arise that one of his colleagues is soliciting sexual favors from a recipient,...
- 4/27/2025
- by Alexander Knoth
- AsianMoviePulse
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