Creating a vehicle for a comedy act can often result in disappointment; taking the performers outside of their usual format to try and push them to be something they are not. But with “Thanc You”, manzai duo Jaru Jaru basically stick to what they know, working the film around their act, rather than shoehorning it into a script.
Thanc You is screening at Camera Japan
A male-female manzai act bicker about each other’s commitment to the double act; a teacher wants to disband the mountain climbing club at his school as it only has one introverted member; a hairdresser insists that his customers focus solely on him; a young man asks his flatmate to move out as his family name isn’t that of an onsen town…
Having found increased fame over the last few years due to popular, daily YouTube videos, Jaru Jaru – made up of Junpei Goto...
Thanc You is screening at Camera Japan
A male-female manzai act bicker about each other’s commitment to the double act; a teacher wants to disband the mountain climbing club at his school as it only has one introverted member; a hairdresser insists that his customers focus solely on him; a young man asks his flatmate to move out as his family name isn’t that of an onsen town…
Having found increased fame over the last few years due to popular, daily YouTube videos, Jaru Jaru – made up of Junpei Goto...
- 9/27/2022
- by Andrew Thayne
- AsianMoviePulse
Stars: Nao Ômori, Lindsay Hayward, Mao Daichi, Hairi Katagiri, Gin Maeda, Suzuki Matsuo, Hitoshi Matsumoto, Eriko Satô, Shinobu Terajima, Ai Tominaga | Written by Hitoshi Matsumoto, Mitsuyoshi Takasu, Tomoji Hasegawa, Kôji Ema, Mitsuru Kuramoto | Directed by Hitoshi Matsumoto
Hitoshi Matsumoto is a director who, though I can’t say I know a great deal about, only that he is a comedian known for his surreal and crazy style, I have enjoyed greatly in the past with his films Symbol (2009) and Big Man Japan (2007) so I was intrigued and excited to see that R100, Matsumoto’s latest, was going to be a part of Frightfest in 2014.
A stiff bodied and reticent office worker, Takafumi, joins a strange club which has one rule, the rule being that, under no circumstances can you cancel your membership within the year in which the membership runs for. Simple. No. What this results in is hard to quite explain,...
Hitoshi Matsumoto is a director who, though I can’t say I know a great deal about, only that he is a comedian known for his surreal and crazy style, I have enjoyed greatly in the past with his films Symbol (2009) and Big Man Japan (2007) so I was intrigued and excited to see that R100, Matsumoto’s latest, was going to be a part of Frightfest in 2014.
A stiff bodied and reticent office worker, Takafumi, joins a strange club which has one rule, the rule being that, under no circumstances can you cancel your membership within the year in which the membership runs for. Simple. No. What this results in is hard to quite explain,...
- 8/22/2014
- by Chris Cummings
- Nerdly
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