Hazard

Hazard

2005 · 103 min · JA · 6.5 (19 votes)
Dir. Sion Sono · Starring Joe Odagiri, Jai West, Motoki Fukami, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Rin Kurana, Kenjirou Ishimaru · Music Tomohide Harada

Three criminal punks from Japan stir up New York City.

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Shin is a Japanese university student living a boring and meaningless life. One day, he spots a book titled Dangerous Ways to Walk the World, in which he finds a page written about hazards in New-York. Eager to get out, he jets off to New-York to find this inspiration.

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A profound sense of urban ennui permeates this film. It captures the quiet desperation of a young man adrift, searching for purpose in the vast, indifferent landscape of New York City. The mood is heavy, introspective, and tinged with a palpable unease.

melancholicdisaffectedanxiouscontemplativeslow-burngritty realismindie dramacharacter studyalienationexistentialismurban decaysearch for meaning
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