TALKING THE PICTURES
“A charmingly inventive and affectionate tribute to Japan's silent movie era. A joyously entertaining, inventively plotted, beautifully shot farce.”
- Variety
Shuntaro dreams of becoming a katsudo benshi narrator of silent movies but gets caught up with a group of thieves. He decides to escape to a small town to pursue his dream in a once-famous but now struggling theatre. There he must contend with a slave-driver theatre owner, an impossibly incompetent and drunken staff and an arrogant competitor. When both the gang of thieves, and his long-lost love, arrive in town it is now or never for Shuntaro.
Director Suo (Shall We Dance, Lady Maiko) injects much of the broad humour and zany slapstick of the period in this loving tribute to Japanese silent film era.
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