Sion Sono
dir. Yasukawa Tokuhiro / screenplay: Yamamoto Takayuki (Sion Sono)
Japan 2020, 60’
Subtitles: Polish
Screenings
06.10.2023, 21:30
Cinema Muranów
Early one morning, a dramatic row breaks out between Hasegawa and Satsuki in a park. Will their relationship survive? Suddenly, they break off their shouting and go over to their friend Emi, and we realize that they were just rehearsing a scene. Or were they?
Emi reads from a piece of paper: “Terms of the casting: find a partner, learn the lines for the scene given. The casting will take place on 10th December at 8 p.m.” There are just 14 hours until they go before the director. In that time, we learn what the young people feel for each other and what happened between them, or, indeed, remains unresolved and continues to play out. Just what is this casting for which they are so zealously preparing?
Sion Sono
On the face of it, Maybe Woohoo and Red Post on Escher Street have much in common in the form of the plot idea involving young people preparing for castings. In fact, however, it would be hard to find two such diametrically different interpretations of this meta-dramatic starting point.
Where the comedy Red Post on Escher Street may be seen as a positive statement on the part of Sono regarding his work with a group of young would-be actors, the psychodrama Maybe Woohoo shows the torture of the individual, who perceive the same process entirely differently.
Production team
director: Yasukawa Tokuhiro
screenplay: Yamamoto Takayuki (Sion Sono), Yasukawa Tokuhiro
camera: Ishigaki Motomu
editor: Yasukawa Tokuhiro
score: Tokuda Shizuka
cast: Miyamori Remi, Endo Yuuto, Iida Saki, Yamaoka Tatsushiro
producer: Mitsumine Tetsuhide
distributor: Shokutaku
language: Japanese
colour/ BW: colour
