You never know what you’re going to get with Director Sion Sono: bloody terror, flamboyant insanity, or sweet earnestness. In his latest film, RED POST ON ESCHER STREET, he nostalgically reflects on his own robust career in Japan’s film industry, creating a lengthy love letter to the filmmaking process. In the film, renowned filmmaker Tadashi Kobayashi (Tatsuhiro Yamaoka) holds an open audition for his latest film, attracting fans, dreamers, and an assortment of wacky characters. But Kobayashi is jaded from the filmmaking process: producers are hounding him to cast trendy, famous idols, and he’s struggling with writer's block, unable to finish the script for his upcoming film. RED POST ON ESCHER STREET is a charming, loving ode to the underappreciated heroes of filmmaking — the extra — and one of Sono’s best films in years. — Jenny Nulf, Programs Director

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DIRECTOR/WRITER/EDITOR: Sion Sono

PRODUCERS: Hiroyuki Ogasawara, Masaya Takahashi

CINEMATOGRAPHY: Masaya Suzuki 

CAST: Mala Morgan, Taro Suwa, Tetsu Watanabe, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Tomoko Fujita, Jun Toba

LENGTH: 148 min

LANGUAGES: Japanese with English subtitles

COUNTRY: Japan

GENRE: Drama | Comedy

ACCOLADES / FESTIVALS

2020 Mar del Plata International Film Festival

2020 Valdivia International Film Festival

2020 Montreal Festival of New Cinema

2021 Black Movie Geneva International Independent Film Festival

2021 Japan Society 21st Century Japan Series

2021 Kosmorama Trondheim International Film Festival