Japan Cuts XV Review: Soushi Matsumoto’s IT’S A SUMMER FILM Celebrates The Dauntless Spirit Of A Timeless Art
There’s a certain exuberance with stories about aspiring artists in pursuit of goals greater than themselves, reaching epiphanies that ultimately transform them in the process through some measure of joy and immense pain. It’s all about the growth, normally, and this – particularly with a dash of romance, chanbara and sci-fi – especially coincides with Soushi Matsumoto’s new film, It’s A Summer Film!. There are eighty days left until the launch of a film festival for a group of high school film clubbers (each who address each other by a nickname), including kendo student Blue Hawaii (Inori Kilala), sci-fi fan Kickboard (Kawai Yuumi), and chanbara-obssessed Barefoot (pop idol, actress and former Nogizaka46 member Marika Ito), who is eager to produce her inspired period sword drama screenplay, Samurai Spring. Deal is, apart from casting, she can’t get around not being the club’s filmmaking favorite, Karin (Coda Mahiru), to be awarded the […]