FEATURE FILM TITLE : NN-891102 (dir. Go SHIBATA, 1999, 75 min) 

One of the favourite films of the London audience at the Japanese London Festival. Incredible use of sound, especially recommended to amateurs of experimental music.

THE PLOT

Unforgettable indie classic about a man struggling to overcome the trauma of the A-bomb through sound.

Reiichi, a survivor of Nagasaki, has in his possession an astounding document: the sound of 'Fat Man' detonating on 9 August, 1945 at 11.02am. He becomes obsessed with memories of his life before and after the bombing, and most disturbingly, with recreating this terrifying sound on audio tape - a process that will jeopardize his sanity and his life.

Director Bio

One of the most exciting directors to emerge from the Osaka indie filmmaking scene of the 1990s, Go Shibata was born in 1975 in Yokohama, Kanagawa prefecture.

NN-891102 is his first film, which he made before graduating from Osaka University of Arts. In 2002, he produced the punk live documentary All Crusties Spending Loud Night Noise (2002). His second feature, Late Bloomer (Osoi hito), about a serial killer with cerebral palsy, was completed in 2004, and was shown at more than 15 film festivals, and received Dream Digital Award at Hawaii International Film Festival 2005. Other films include Punch the Blue Sky (Aozora ponchi, 2008) and Doman Seman (Horikawa Nakatachiuri), which played in the Official Selection of the 10th Tokyo FILMeX in 2009.

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BUY TICKETS

You can buy advance tickets for £4.50 on this link: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/113970

On the night, tickets will be available for £5 (full price) or £3.50 (concessions).

Event programmed with the support of the ZIPANGU FEST: JAPANESE LONDON FILM FESTIVAL