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Hakootoko

THE BOX MAN

箱男

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Completed

Release Date: August, 23rd, 2024

Running Time: 120 min

Genre: Thriller , Feature

Color: Color

Screening Format: -

Screen Size: -

Sound Processing: -

[ Directed by ]

ISHII Gakuryu

[ Cast ]

[ Staff ]

ABE Kobo ── Original Story

[ Distributor (Japan) ]

Happinet Phantom Studios

[ Story ]

In this eerie and evocative masterpiece, the nameless protagonist gives up his identity and normal life to live witha large cardboard box over his head. Wandering the streets of Tokyo, he scribbles madly in a notebook, describing the world outside as he sees or perhaps imagines it-a tenuous reality with mysterious rifleman determined to shoot him, a seductive young nurse, and a doctor who wants to become a box man himself. "The Box Man" is a marvel of sheer originality and a bizarrely fascinating fable about the very nature of identity.

[ Official Site ]

https://happinet-phantom.com/hakootoko/

[ Film Festivals, Awards ]

2024 Berlin International Film Festival, Berlinale Special

[ Contact (International) ]

Happinet Phantom Studios Corp (formerly Phantom Film Co., Ltd.)
International Acquisitions and Sales
9F, A-PLACE Yoyogi Bldg., 5-23-15 Sendagaya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 151-0051
Rep: KONISHI Keisuke
Attn: HATANO Rie
tel: +81-3-6862-0361
fax: +81-3-6862-0363
E-mail: rie.hatano@hsn.happinet.co.jp
https://happinet-phantom.com

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