Plots(1)
A man with a cardboard box over his head wanders the streets of Tokyo. Peering at the world through a peephole, he incessantly writes down in a notebook what he can see. The photographer Myself spots the man and is fascinated. He decides to do the same thing and become a box man himself. But his path to get there is not easy; countless challenges and dangers lie in wait. They include a fake doctor who wants to rob him of his box-man identity; a military man who seeks to use him for the perfect crime; and a mysterious woman who does everything she can to seduce him. Can Myself achieve his dream of becoming a box man? Hako Otoko is an adaptation of the 1973 novel “The Box Man” by Kōbō Abe. (Berlinale)
(more)Cast
Masatoshi Nagase
Japan
Best movies:
The Hidden Blade (2004)
Sweet Red Bean Paste (2015)
Mystery Train (1989)
浅野忠信
Japan
Best movies:
Our Mother (2008)
Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi (2003)
佐藤浩市
Japan
Best movies:
Antarctica (1983)
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
The Floating Castle (2012)
Ayana Shiramoto
Japan
Kiyohiko Shibukawa
Japan
Best movies:
Hanging Garden (2005)
Crows-Zero (2007)
Blue Spring (2001)