Nemuru Otoko (1996)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 103 minuten
Alternative titles: Sleeping Man / 眠る男
Country:
Japan
Directed by: Kôhei Oguri
Stars: Christine Hakim and Kôji Yakusho
IMDb score:
7,1 (318)
Releasedate: 3 February 1996
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
Nemuru Otoko plot
The sleeping man from the title is Takuiji, a young man who returns to his village after a journey through South America and has a mysterious and fatal accident in the mountains behind his house: he falls into a coma. Sleeping Man is about the things that happen around him; the seasons that come and go, life in the village and the people who take care of it and come to see it. Like his former school friend, the electrician Kamimura, who occasionally sits down next to him and reminisces about the past. We also meet the old miller who tells stories to a boy in the village. And with Tia (Christine Hakim), a foreign woman who works in the local bar and who lost her son in a flood.
Actors and actresses
Takuji
Kamimura
Tomiko
Tia
Old Man at Post Office
Takuji's Father
Chief
Middle-aged Mother-in-law
Denjihei
Reviews & comments
Onderhond
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- 87623 messages
- 12891 votes
Not a bad title.
For the first half hour I wondered why I had looked this up. But after half an hour I knew that this had to be from the same man as The Buried Forest. Based on that film, Oguri certainly deserved another chance.
In retrospect, this film is actually not much different and not much has changed in those 10 years. Slices of life from a small Japanese village hidden in the mountains. A bit too brown and boring, although it is occasionally broken up by very nice pictures.
The pace is agonizingly slow and the film is extremely fragmentary. At times I threatened to become the Sleeping Man, but in a fairly pleasant way. A bit like Café Lumière also has.
Sometimes surreal features, or strange scenes. This ensures that the film is certainly worth watching, but sometimes just too slow and too dry. Visually nothing more than extremely straight-framed shots that barely dare to move. Lots of silences and static moments.
It's certainly not bad, I can certainly appreciate all aspects individually, but sometimes it all becomes a bit too boring and dead with Oguri. In any case, it is certainly special and recognizable.
Also for this 3.0*
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Fisico
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- 10039 messages
- 5398 votes
Difficult and very quiet film. Poetically depicted and in which harmony with nature is strived for instead of chaos and conflict. I discovered this film because I wanted to see more of Kôji Yakusho after I saw him shine in Wim Wenders' latest gem 'Perfect Days'.
Oguri manages to impress with long and silent shots. Beautiful and stylish images, but I was still a bit lacking in terms of content. In the center you have the sleeping Takuji who is surrounded by family and friends. Peaceful, just like the landscape (forest and mountains) outside his farm. Memories are brought back and the man does get some visitors, but it doesn't really tell a story.
It is images that speak and not words. Time passes and so do the seasons (great shot from the bedroom to the snow outside). And so it goes on. Some may think about the harmony between humans and nature.
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