The simple fact that Gama No Abura is the directorial debut of Japanese leading man Koji Yakusho - westerners know him from Babel, Japanophiles from most of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's films and a slew of others - would be enough to generate a whole lot of notice. That it actually looks really damn good doesn't hurt, either. In production for years now - Yakusho's a busy guy - the film has finally wrapped up and tells the story of a stock trader (Yakusho) trying to hold together a relationship with his son following a tragedy. Which makes it sounds like dark, serious stuff but not so much ... the freshly released trailer plays far more like a goofy comedy, albeit a very smart one, somewhat along the line of a Koki Mitani film.
Check the trailer out below the break!
Looks like a lot of Feel Good Stuff.
I'm glad, that one of my favourit actors is doing his own movie.
Hope it succeed artisticly and commercially