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‘Odd Taxi’s’ Baku Kinoshita on His Melancholic Feature Debut ‘The Last Blossom,’ Premiering in Annecy
Baku Kinoshita's 'The Last Blossom' explores change and redemption through a former yakuza's bond with a talking flower.
Kinoshita’s directorial debut tells the story of Minoru Akutsu, a former yakuza dying in a solitary prison cell after a life sentence. The filmmaker puts a whimsical twist on a rather dark tale by having that flower converse with Akutsu, who tells it the story of his life before imprisonment. Well, maybe it’s obvious, but Akutsu doesn’t change shape or take different forms; he’s very quiet, whereas the flower is funny and flexible and has a lot of freedom, very animated, as you say.
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