Gakuryu Ishii’s Bonkers The Box Man Getting A UK Release
It’s been 40 years in making, Gakuryu Ishii’s The Box Man is set for a UK and Irish Blu-Ray release in June.
The film stars Masatoshi Nagase (Mystery Train) and Golden Globe winning actor Tadanobu Asano (Shogun). The Box Man takes on the 1973 novel of the same name written by Kōbō Abe who also wrote Woman In The Dunes.
The film is about a man who lives with a cardboard box over his head. He wanders the streets of Tokyo facing many challenges, many want him to do bad things. Will he ever achieve the life as just the box man?
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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?
Bonus Features
• Feature length audio commentary by Tom Mes
• Cast and Crew talk event
• Cast comments from inside the Box
• Director Q&A at the Japan Society
• Trailers
• Special “Box” Slipcase Edition (Limited to 2000 copies)
• Region B
Third Window Films are set to release The Box Man on Blu-Ray plus Digital format from 30th June.
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