SHNEIDMAN BLUES

A Comical Intervention

Venue(s): Cinema K2 Shimokitazawa
From May 31 (Fri), 2024, Check the website
Language: Japanese with English subtitles
Official website: motion-gallery.net/projects/shunautsu/updates/50932
Theater website: k2-cinema.com/event
Theater website: k2-cinema.com/access
Trailer: https://bit.ly/4bAH83h

Advance tickets: https://k2-cinema.com/en/purchase.pdf
Talk event: Check the theater website.

Title: シュナイドマンの憂鬱 (Shneidman no Yuutsu)
Director: Kyoichi Komoto (古本恭一)
Duration: 22 min

The latest independent short by actor-director Kyoichi Furumoto is being showcased with English subtitles in Shimokitazawa, starting today. This one is a comedy, inventively depicting the interactions between a man about to jump off a cliff and the mysterious people who begin gathering around him.

Veteran character actor Shinya Owada, known for his film and TV roles, is co-starring.A man, despairing of his life, climbs a mountain path. He reaches a precipice, where unusual people suddenly start appearing around him, and the situation takes an unpredictable, boisterous turn.

*: Edwin S. Shneidman was an American clinical psychologist, suicidologist and thanatologist.