There are twelve stills from Hiromasa Hirosue's The Lost Hum (Hanauta dorobô) on the page for the movie on the Gunjô-iro official website (see bottom of this article for link). The Lost Hum is scheduled to have its world première at the 35th International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) on January 26th at 7:30 p.m. (19:30), and to subsequently be screened there on January 27th at 4:15 p.m. (16:15), February 2nd at 12:15 p.m. (12:15), and February 4th at 1:15 p.m. (13:15).
The screenplay for The Lost Hum was written by Izumi Takahashi. The movie stars Hirosue, Ari Takagi, and Takahashi.
Hirosue was born on March 26, 1978 in Kochi Prefecture, Japan. Takahashi was born on November 1, 1973 in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. These two men are the founders of the abovementioned Gunjô-iro, which The Lost Hum was produced by.
Below is a description of The Lost Hum from the English-language page (see bottom of this article for link) for the movie on the IFFR website.
Intense and unheimische digital film by the illustrious duo Takahashi Izumi and Hirosue Hiromasa. A woman kidnapped her sister's murderer and uses her website to attract strange visitors to the apartment where she is holding him.
The latest production by the illustrious duo Takahashi Izumi and Hirosue Hiromasa. Last year, Takahashi was director of The Soup, One Morning, in which Hirosue played the role of a troubled young man who becomes entangled in a sect. The intense short film Sayonara sayonara by Hirosue was also screened. The Lost Hum is Hirosue's first full-length feature and he also takes on the leading role, apparently effortlessly. As well as playing an important supporting role and doing some of the camerawork, Takahashi was responsible for the screenplay and production. The result is occasionally cruel and weird, but always intense and creepy. The basis is a kind of big-city newspaper cuttings horror: a man, Nagamiya, is bound and locked in a room, having been kidnapped by Hasumi, whose sister he killed. Hasumi does not know how to go on. She makes a website with a route description and a question: 'I have caught a man who killed my sister, but don't know what to do with him. Does anyone have a suggestion for me?' The website attracts a strange selection of visitors to the apartment: one even wants to play judge, another comes just for fun, there is a young religious woman and a youth who smells a chance to become a murderer. As the days pass, the relations between the victim and his kidnapper do not develop as we might expect.
Gunjô-iro: The Lost Hum
IFFR: The Lost Hum (English)
IFFR: The Lost Hum (Dutch)
"Intense and unheimische digital film ..."
Unheimische? I guess they must mean "unheimlich", the German word for "creepy", "spooky" etc. If you want to sound hip by using foreign words you should better make sure you spell them correctly.
Oi ... I know there are people who will disagree strongly with me on this one but I LOATHED The Soup One Morning. Absolutely hated it. Wouldn't recommend it to my worst enemy. Ick.
I can imagine someone disliking it, even detesting it. It's a mood piece that requires you to be in a certain state of mind.
It's very understated, no big emotions. Something that slowly creeps up on you, without realizing it, by the end I was heart-broken. So painful to see two persons drifting apart over the course of time, the man retreating into his own world and the woman trying her best and failing to pull him back.
i just caught a screening of it at the vancovuer international film festival and i have to say, i hated it. it must be the worst film i've seen this year.
there's a scene where you see 3 teens from their back view walking towards the apartment, and it last for 5 minutes!!! all they did was chit chat and walk... omg