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The Box Man

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The protagonist, "Myself" decides to give up his identity to become the box man. Wearing a cardboard box over his head, the box man wanders around the city, peeks into the world one-sidedly through a peephole, fantasizes incessantly, and writes them all down in his notebook. However, the road to becoming the real one is not easy, with the Fake Doctor prowling after "Myself" to take over the existence of the box man.

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Pieter-Jan Van Haecke Psychocinematography Gakuryu Ishii delivers a composition – a concatenation of static shots and floaty dynamic moments – that keeps the spectator engaged throughout the narrative with ease. Oct 8, 2024 Full Review Mark Schilling Japan Times Ishii films this story with stylized energy, strange, shadowy atmospherics and a vibe comically deranged but deeply serious. Rated: 3/5 Aug 19, 2024 Full Review Morris Yang In Review Online The eponymous film... assumes familiarity with the source novel and affords, accordingly, little reflexive distance from its weird wavelength. Its satirical subtext proves remarkably elastic, and consequently frustrating and inconsequential. Jul 17, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis The protagonist, "Myself" decides to give up his identity to become the box man. Wearing a cardboard box over his head, the box man wanders around the city, peeks into the world one-sidedly through a peephole, fantasizes incessantly, and writes them all down in his notebook. However, the road to becoming the real one is not easy, with the Fake Doctor prowling after "Myself" to take over the existence of the box man.
Director
Sogo Ishii
Screenwriter
Kiyotaka Inagaki, Sogo Ishii, Kobo Abe
Production Co
Happinet Phantom Studios Corporation
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Japanese
Runtime
2h 0m