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Bumpkin Soup
Directed by
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
A country girl named Akiko (Yoriko Doguchi, known for her collaborations with the late Kishin Shinoyama) visits a college in Tokyo in search of her hometown sweetheart. In the course of finding him, she runs into various odd inhabitants of the college campus – blasé intellectuals, sex-crazed co-eds, a psychology professor in search of the theory of shame (played by award-winning director Juzo Itami) and of course her sweetheart Yoshioka, who has become an elusive campus nobody. An early pink film from Kiyoshi Kurosawa, the award-winning director of Cure and Tokyo Sonata.
Director & Cast
- Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Starring: Yoriko Doguchi
- Starring: Juzo Itami
- Starring: Kenso Kato
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Reviews
- "Most obviously inspired by mid-career Godard, Kurosawa adopts a post-modern, absurdist approach satirising left-wing student politics and youthful intensity while inserting random moments of song and dance along with explicit (and often odd) sexual content.... Kurosawa certainly has his fun while exploring the innocence/experience divide."
- "The playful melange of comedy, coming-of-age and even musical is an experimental take on Kurosawa’s core theme of the relationship of people and places as well as the search for meaning in the modern world."
- "There is an understandable argument to be made here that Bumpkin Soup shouldn’t even be considered a pink film, but I like to think of it as a playful turn on the genre, one that keeps us on our toes until the very end."