naoki murahashi

Naoki Murahashi’s new feature mockumentary, Extro, doesn’t feel like one at first, and that speaks to the brilliance of it. The featured actors are largely playing satirized versions of themselves, and personally, it took until around the sixteen minute mark so for that fact to settle in with the geniusness already in progress. To add, that the film is actor Kozo Haginoya’s feature debut certainly does wonders, and he plays the part expertly. He’s a farmer whose son works in dentistry, and when he’s not busy farming, he’s a listed volunteer background actor working on replicated film and television sets at Warp Station Edo in Tuskubamirai. His heart is in the right place, but oftentimes his eccentricities get the best of him while shooting, often resulting in multiple frustrating takes. And this is just one of several frustrating instances Extro illustrates in the due process of a set production. Haginoya […]

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