美しい星 (A Beautiful Star) 2017 Ages 15+
![Production still from A Beautiful Star 2017 / Director: Daihachi Yoshida / Image courtesy: GAGA Corporation](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/m2obzhc2/production/8a6e8eb0fe17a14f04449629982bdd993d83aef0-4240x2832.jpg?rect=0,376,4240,2080&w=320&h=157&q=90&fit=crop)
Production still from A Beautiful Star 2017 / Director: Daihachi Yoshida / Image courtesy: GAGA Corporation / View full image
When
6.00 pm, Fri 10 Jan 2025 (127 mins)Where
Gallery of Modern Art & Cinema A
Accessibility
- Subtitled
- Wheelchair Accessible
About
Daihachi Yoshida’s A Beautiful Star 2017 tells the story of a television weather presenter, who, after witnessing an alleged UFO, believes he is an extraterrestrial sent to Earth to warn of the impending climate emergency.
Using absurdity as a type of counter-distancing effect, Yoshida masterfully uses the veil of humour to create thought-provoking commentary on the current climate emergency, resulting in a passive, but poignant, call to action. Based on the 1962 novel by Yukio Mishima, the boundaries of science-fact and science-fiction are blurred in this surrealist family drama that ultimately addresses broader themes of delusion, desire and denial.
Ages 15+ | Mature themes and sexual references
Production Credits
- Director: Daihachi Yoshida
- Script: Daihachi Yoshida
- Cinematographer: Ryuto Kondo
- Editor: Kumi Okada
- Cast: Lily Franky, Kazuya Kamenashi, Ai Hashimoto
- Print Source: GAGA Corporation
- Rights: GAGA Corporation
- Year: 2017
- Runtime: 127 minutes
- Country: Japan
- Language: Japanese
- Subtitles: English
- Sound: Stereo
- Colour: Colour
- Shooting Format: Digital
- Screening Format: DCP