The chaotic genius who made ramen epic turns his camera on himself. Buckle up.
A behind-the-scenes look at the creative process behind Juzo Itami's "A-Ge-Man" a.k.a. "Tales of a Golden Geisha".
Direction
Itami's obsessive perfectionism laid gloriously bare.
Production
The controlled disaster of a comedy set.
Director
Toshiro Uratani
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Itami and Miyamoto were the Burton-Bonham Carter of Japanese cinema: married, messy, magnificent. Their real-life dynamic became its own performance.
Itami allegedly kept 47 takes of one reaction shot. The doc shows maybe 3. The horror of the unseen footage haunts me.
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