wolf’s calling

Director Toshiaki Toyoda’s new narrative shortfilm, Wolf’s Calling, clocks in at sixteen minutes, but covers an intriguing and vast bit of ground for its simplistic message, with music as its backdrop. The short, part of Japan Cuts for the Narrative Shorts line-up, opens with a woman (Miu) finding a gun wrapped up in a cloth somewhere in her attic. Standing for a moment to gaze at the weapon, the movie then segways back to fedual Japan where we meet a group of samurai gathering at a temple. For the remainder of the sequence, one samurai (Kiyohiko Shibukawa) scales to the temple atop a long stairway. He convenes together with three other samurai, played by Tadanobu Asano, Kengo Kora and Tatsuya Nakamura, followed by the arrival of twenty farmers, played by punk band Seppuku Pistols, who also wrote and performed the soundtrack. Soon, all the men take battle formations with the […]

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