Directed by:
SabuScreenplay:
SabuCast:
Ken'ichi Matsuyama, 大野いと, Ren Ōsugi, 伊勢谷友介, Susumu Terajima, 玉城ティナ, Hiromasa Taguchi, 謝花弘規, Yo Takahashi, Kazuma Yamane, Takashi MatsuyukiPlots(1)
Things are hectic in heaven. Dozens of scribes sit before a long scroll incessantly scribbling away. They are composing the biographies of earth-dwellers. What is invented by the men in heaven is lived out below. And their employer, God, is increasingly vehement in demanding avant-garde ideas. Take, for example, the beautiful Yuri, a girl who dies in a car crash. Some of the heavenly scribes find this very dull and send former gangster Chas, who has become a heavenly tea-boy, back down to earth with instructions to save Yuri no matter what. And so Chas ends up in Okinawa, gets to know the earth-dwellers, interferes in their fates, becomes celebrated as 'Mr Angel' and is hounded by brutal enemies. His falling in love with Yuri is of course a foregone conclusion. But no one could anticipate what happens next. Not even God himself.
Oscillating between philosophy and buffoonery, Sabu's film plays with famous motifs from film history, uniting melodrama, the gangster movie, romance and slapstick. His underlying idea, that every life has a value of its own, is special and in no way predictable and is presented with great pace and flamboyance.
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Cast
Ken'ichi Matsuyama
Japan
Best movies:
Nana (2005)
Bunny Drop (2011)
Šindó (2007)
大野いと
Japan
Best movies:
For Love's Sake (2012)
Ren Ōsugi
Japan
Best movies:
The Twilight Samurai (2002)
By Player (2000)
Fireworks (1997)
伊勢谷友介
Japan
Best movies:
Tekkonkinkreet (2006)
Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends (2014)
Memories of Matsuko (2006)
Susumu Terajima
Japan
Best movies:
Nobody Knows (2004)
When Marnie Was There (2014)
Fireworks (1997)
玉城ティナ
Japan
Best movies:
Belle (2021)
Sakurada Reset Part I (2017)
Wolf Girl and Black Prince (2016)
Hiromasa Taguchi
Japan
Best movies:
I Just Didn't Do It (2006)
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald (1997)
Sumo Do, Sumo Don't (1992)
謝花弘規
Japan
Best movies:
Heroine Disqualified (2015)
Yo Takahashi
Japan
Best movies:
I Am a Hero (2015)
Journey to the Shore (2015)
Cold Bloom (2012)
Kazuma Yamane
Japan
Best movies:
Júki (2006) (TV movie)
Cold Fish (2010)
Joker Game (2015)
Takashi Matsuyuki
Japan
Best movies:
Ajin: Demi-Human (2017)
Mumon (2017)