Pulsation
Under the Open Sky
Subarashiki Sekai
Swiss Premiere
Miwa Nishikawa / Japan / 2020 / 126 min / Drama
Japanese / Subtitles English
Japanese / Subtitles English
An ageing former yakuza comes out of prison. From rotten jobs to everyday humiliations, he seeks to tame his impulsive nature and live the cruel experience of banality. A bittersweet chronicle of life after prison, carried at tattooed arm's length by the invaluable Kōji Yakusho.
Novelist Miwa Nishikawa came to cinema by first working with Kore-eda. This adaptation of a book by Ryūzō Saki marks the return of Kōji Yakusho, seen in The Eel and Eureka. Remarkable, he embodies here the sorrows of a yakuza, a solitary bird freshly freed from a long sentence. The setbacks of a man who, braving taboos, turns his destiny upside down. A humorous film about the scars of life, and redemption.
Direction
Miwa Nishikawa
Screenplay
Miwa Nishikawa
Image
Norimichi Kasamatsu
Editing
Ryuji Miyajima, Tomomi Kikuchi
Sound
Mitsugu Shiratori
Music
Masaki Hayashi
Production
“Under the Open Sky” Production Committee (Production Committee), Aoi Promotion (Taichi Itô), Asako Nishikawa, Eiji Kitahara
With
Koji Yakusho, Taiga Nakano, Masami Nagasawa
International sales
GAGA Corporation