A Blue Automobile

Drama · 2004

Aoi Kuruma (A Blue Automobile) focuses on such a character - a part-time DJ and record-store employee named Richio (Arata). With his spiky yellow hair, wrap-around shades and pale mask of a face, Richio would seem to be an icy moon circling the distant planet of his own regard. But as Okuhara shows us from the first scene, Richio has been traumatized by a boyhood horror - and still bears the physical scars on one eye, the emotional scars in dreams and visions he can neither escape nor explain away. The sunglasses and mask are there for a reason, the pain and rage are real. At the same time, he has a straightforwardness that verges on the cruel - but this is also one of his most appealing qualities.

Starring

Atsuyuki Shimoda, Kosuke Mukai, Arata Iura, Aoi Miyazaki, Michio Koshikawa, Kumiko Aso, Hiroshi Okuhara, Hiroshi Okuhara, Tomorowo Taguchi

Director

Hiroshi Okuhara

Producer

Michio Koshikawa