Winner of the Best Director Award at the 2018 Tokyo International Film Festival: Japanese Cinema Splash, the Best Debut Feature from Udine Far East Film Festival, the Audience Award from Nippon Connection and Asian Pop-Up Cinema, and the Jury Award at Camera Japan, “Melancholia,” the auspicious debut from writer/director Seiji Tanaka, features an ingenious script full of unexpected shifts in genre and tone, effortlessly swinging between black comedy, coming-of-age romance and crime thriller.
The blu-ray of the film will be available on Third Window Films on September 7, 2020. Extra features include Behind the Scenes, a Q&A with the director and cast, the short film version of “Melancholic.” “Melancholic” will also be available on various video and on-demand platforms.
Summary:
Despite having graduated from the prestigious Tokyo University, Kazuhiko is unemployed and living with his parents without any plans for the future. Everything changes, however, when he takes up a job at a local bathhouse and discovers that it is used by the yakuza as a convenient place for executions and corpse disposal.
