Junk Food

During 24-hours, the director Masashi Yamamoto walks through the dark streets of Tokyo, visits restaurants, salsa bars, Iranian discos, bedrooms and the subway. In these places, different types of Japanese living intersect. An old, blind woman (the director's mother) wakes
up in the morning and goes out to buy bread. At the same time in another part of the city, Miyuki, a young clerical worker, wakes up and takes a dose of heroin.
In the evening, a Pakistani who has stolen a lot of money, asks his Japanese girlfriend to marry him, but she hesitates in light of his newly won fortune. Hide meets a Chinese-American hooker when he arrives in Tokyo to be present at his friend's funeral. His friend died in the subway and the corpse went around all
of Tokyo without anyone noticing. Ryo is a gang-leader, who during the night leads a bloody show-down with another gang. When the old woman wakes up next morning, the livesofthese people have been linked together and nothing will ever be the same.
Behind Tokyo's futuristic concept and the digital neon-lights, we see the brutal existence of the marginalized. Their lives shine though in fragments of the anony-
mity of big city life and the paradox of the global world, or if one wants to put it that way, the dystopia of urbanization. This is the true ''main character'' of this film.
We do not get to witness glamorous eastern mysticism, but a grim reality with loneliness, desperation, heroin and violence.
A de-mystification of Tokyo becomes even stronger and more believable, when a Japanese person depicts his home town and gives us the opportunity to get a voyeuristic glimpse into this weird mix of people.
Junk Food is a low-budget fi 1m shot
in the authentic environments, where e.g. the gangs roam. The music, by DJ Krus,
is a genre-breaking mix of salsa, Latin hiphop and Iranian disco-music. The director Masashi Yamamoto, who has several award-winning films behind him, sees Junk Food as a turning-point in his film-making.
GOL POYRAZ

Premiärstatus
Svensk premiär: Medverkande
Miyuki Ijima, Akifumi Yamaguchi, Keigo Naruse: Producent
Toshihiro Isomi: Manus
Masashi Yamamoto: Foto
Hiroshi Ito: Musik
DJ Krush, Ko Machida: Talat språk
Japanese