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The Box Man

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Original title

Hako Otoko (The Box Man)

Year

2024

Running time

120 min.

Country

Japan

Director

Sogo Ishii

Screenwriter

Kiyotaka Inagaki, Sogo Ishii. Novel: Kôbô Abe

Cast

Music

Michiaki Katsumoto

Cinematography

Hideho Urata

Producer

Happinet Phantom Studios, Studios Cogitoworks. Producer: Keisuke Konishi, Tomohiko Seki

Genre

Drama

Synopsis

A man with a cardboard box over his head wanders the streets of Tokyo. Peering at the world through a peephole, he incessantly writes down in a notebook what he can see. The photographer Myself spots the man and is fascinated. He decides to do the same thing and become a box man himself. But his path to get there is not easy; countless challenges and dangers lie in wait. They include a fake doctor who wants to rob him of his box-man identity; a military man who seeks to use him for the perfect crime; and a mysterious woman who does everything she can to seduce him. Can Myself achieve his dream of becoming a box man? Hako Otoko is an adaptation of the 1973 novel “The Box Man” by Kōbō Abe.

Awards: 2025: Asian Film Awards: 2 nominations

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