In a shantytown on the edges of Johannesburg, South Africa, 19-year-old Tsotsi has repressed any memory of his past, including his real name: "Tsotsi" simply means "thug" or "gangster" in the street language of the ghetto. Tsotsi traces six days in the life of a ruthless young gang leader who ends up caring for a baby accidentally kidnapped during a car-jacking.
69 is adapted from Japanese novelist Murakami Ryu, and the screenplay is written by Kudo Kankuro, and starring Tsumabuki Sotoshi and Ando Masanobu. The story took place in 1969. Two high school students hoped to challenge traditional beliefs and rules. This plan however caught the attention of television stations and newspapers, and even cops became involved in this teenage adventure!
Like the silent films of old, the story unfolds entirely without words. Funny music, sound effects, and exclamations replace language as we know it. The film is a rich cascade of gags, sketches and tragicomic situations, including a wild police chase and a surprise ending.
Former cinematographer Lajos Koltai stunned the Berlin Film Festival with this Second World War drama based on the 1975 Nobel Prize winning novel by Imre Kertész, a semi-autobiographica l work about his experience as a 14-year-old deported to the concentration camps from Budapest.
This is a road movie of a gay couple traveling from hyper-real Edo (old Tokyo) to the Holy Ise Temple in search of the "REAL." The film starts as a comedy and makes you laugh, but then takes you little by little to the deep world of life and death, and makes you face the profound questions in the end.
