Adrift in Tokyo (2007) - Third Window Films Review
Welcome to Sensei Sensibility! You are the hungry mind yearning to devour quality Asian cinema; I am the (questionably) knowledgeable Sensei , more than happy to satiate your cinematic appetite. "Happiness creeps into you so slowly that you don't notice, but misfortune arrives abruptly" If "misfortune" means a hardened loan shark bursting into your shabby apartment, stuffing his sweaty sock into your mouth while issuing severe threats re: repayment of your staggering debt, then yes, misfortune has rudely arrived for our anti-hero Fumiya. Fumiya (haplessly played by the adorable Joe Odagiri ) is a perennial student, apathetically chain-smoking his way through a life that has no real meaning or merit. Passively accepting things as they are, and accumulating great debt along the way, his childhood trauma colours how he sees, and fears, the world today. It would take divine intervention to get Fumiya off his backside and out into the world. Ent...