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Heart, Beating in the Dark (2005)
Yamiutsu Shinzo [HEART] Japan, 2005, 104 min, 35mm World Premiere Directed By: Nagasaki Shunichi PRODS: Sasaki Shiro, Kawashiro Kazumi, Higashi Yasuhiko, Kono Satoshi SCR: Nagasaki Shunichi CAM: Inomoto Masami ED: Mitsuhashi Sumiyo MUS: Otomo Yoshihide CAST: Muroi Shigeru, Naito Takashi, Honda Shoichi, Eguchi Noriko, Suwa Taro, Mizushima Kaori, Sasaki Shiro, Nagasaki Shunichi |
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The beat goes on... Twenty-odd years after the original Heart, Beating in the Dark, the idea of a remake comes up. After all, not too many people ever had the chance to see the amazing original. The two stars, Muroi Shigeru and Naito Takashi (both then unknown, both now famous), are happy to let their old performances be referenced but they also want to be in the remake. For Naito, especially, the issue is the moral stance of the old movie. He wants to be in the new film so that he can criticize the character he played two decades ago. Well, not so much criticize... What he really wants to do is punch the guy. And so the new film becomes something more than a remake. It’s also a sequel, and at the same time a rethink. Naito and Muroi return as Ringo and Inako, older and in some ways wiser, while Honda Shoichi and Eguchi Noriko appear as another young couple on the run, with the guiltiest of guilty secrets in their hearts. Across these two couples, Nagasaki builds a searching (and extremely moving) meditation on what it means to live on the wrong side of the tracks, what it means to "grow up"... and what it means to be a loving parent. There has been no finer achievement in Japanese cinema this year. |
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