Makino (Yukio Komasaki ) wakes up in a park in the morning and suddenly realizes that he has been sleeping for the last twenty years, since 1996 and cannot recollect anything that happened in between. He meets Sekine (Shigenori Takeuchi), an investigator who is looking for a job and appoints him to find out the history of his lost twenty years. Then appears a man (Moriwaki) who wants to kill Makino as he claims to have been cheated by him.
Moriwaki says that Makino was a great rock star and that he was his fan and follower. However, as time passed, Makino changed his professions many times and eventually transformed into a professional killer. Now Moriwaki wants to kill Makino, as he has lost all his innocence and has become a sinner and a killer. Here enters a girl who claims to be the ex- lover of Moriwaki and decides to kill him as she is betrayed by him. The circle of incidents continue till Chinatsu (played by the director Aya Itabe herself) enters the scene and the story ends with a dramatic turnaround.
“Score” is a film that depicts many incidents within a short frame of time. Aya Itabe handles the script brilliantly and with the help of slick editing and the smart camera work by Mamoru Gomi narrates the story in an interesting manner. The film deals with the deep human psychology of lies and each and every character feels like he has been cheated by another in the movie. The film also depicts the degeneration of society in the last twenty years as Makino forgets (or he wants to forget) his past.
The film ends with a pretended truth and the director proves that the only reality in the film was fake statement, highlighting number “twenty”, the age people tend to loose their innocence and become materialistic, due to the ever changing pressure of the artificial world.
Yukio Komasaki as Makino gives an excellent performance and the director exploits his facial expressions beautifully. He is brilliant in the first scene and his portrayal of a lost vagabond is just outstanding. Shigenori Takeuchi as Sekine and the director herself as Chinatsu are perfect.
