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Drifting Between Dreams and Reality, Yoshida Daihachi Analyzes ‘Teki Cometh’ Tokyo Competition Film
Yoshida Daihachi’s “Teki Cometh” is based on a 1998 novel about a professor whose retirement is disturbed by a mysterious message about his enemy.
Screening in competition at the 37th edition of the Tokyo International Film Festival, Yoshida Daihachi ’s “ Teki Cometh ” is based on a 1998 novel by Tsutsui Yasutaka about a retired professor, Watanabe Gisuke, who is quietly living out his last days when he receives a mysterious message on his PC that his “enemy” (teki) is coming. But once the “enemy” announces its presence, the film segues into darker, more disturbing territory as Watanabe’s unquiet dreams seem to invade his waking life, with his dead wife (Kurosawa Asuka) resenting what she views as his betrayal – and refusing to remain a mere ghost. So, when Yoshida reread Tsutsui’s novel after an interval of years, its story of an elderly man trying to restart his life while pursued by his past struck him as timely.
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