Beginning Friday, October 4, Plastic, Daisuke Miyazaki‘s heartwarming love story propelled by the intoxicating power of shared musical obsession, opens for an exclusive one-week NY theatrical run at Metrograph In Theater. On the same day, the film will also have its streaming premiere on Metrograph At Home, running for an exclusive limited engagement until December 4.
Miyazaki’s tender, colorful, terribly charming tribute to headstrong youthful romance and the transcendent power of pop is inspired (and soundtracked) by musician Kensuke Ide’s eclectic, electrifying 2020 concept album—a record framed as being the work of a fictional ’70s glam rock group, Exne Kedy and the Poltergeists, and their mysterious frontman. In Plastic, rock obsessives Jun and Ibuki (Takuma Fujie and An Ogawa) bond over their mutual love for Exne Kedy’s elusive music, falling in love while trying to track their idols down, only to drift apart during the Covid-19 pandemic… until the surprise announcement of an Exne Kedy and the Poltergeists reunion presents them with the possibility of a fresh start. A Kani Releasing release.
In support of the theatrical and streaming run of Plastic, Metrograph presents an infectious cinema mixtape with Japanese Soundtrack of Youth, a three-film series featuring Plastic alongside cult classics Shunji Iwai’s All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001) and Macoto Tezuka’s The Legend of the Stardust Brothers (1985), beginning October 4 at Metrograph in Theater.
