Japan Cuts XVII Review: In FOLLOWING THE SOUND, Seeing Is Everything
3 min. read In covering festival films extensively, you eventually come across a film like Following The Sound. It is directed by Kiyoshi Sugita and it’s definitely new ground for me on a feature level. The immediate presence you’re in from the top of the film has more to do with its atmosphere and slow burn tone and pacing. The movie is experimental and optics-focused in nature, which does less for it as a narrative top-to-bottom feature. We firstly meet a woman named Haru (An Ogawa) who asks another woman sitting by herself for directions to a nearby eatery she can’t find. The woman, Yukiko (Yuko Nakamura), decides to walk with her, and when they get there, the place is closed, and Yukiko then decides to bring Haru home and share a meal then. A little later on, Haru is seen observing a man named Tsuyoshi (Hidekazu Mashima) from a […]