The Wish To Be a Red Indian: Kafka and Cinema 2024 / Kafka inaka isha / Japan 2007
This short film by eminent Japanese animator Kôji Yamamura, adapting Kafka’s short story of the same name, re-creates the Kafkaesque experience – a combination of unnatural terror and incredibly dark humour – with the aid of the traditional Japanese comic theatre known as kyōgen. All the action is distorted and, at the same time, subjected to unsustainable ridicule.
Lorenzo Esposito
21 min / Color, DCP
Director Kôji Yamamura
/ Screenplay Kôji Yamamura
/ Dir. of Photography Kôji Yamamura
/ Music Hitomi Shimizu
/ Sound Hajime Tagaki, Keiichi Morimoto
/ Editor Kôji Yamamura
/ Art Director Kôji Yamamura
/ Producer Mariko Seto
/ Production Yamamura Animation
/ Sales Shochiku Co., Ltd.
Kôji Yamamura (1964, Nagoya, Japan). Selected filmography: Aquatic (Suisei, 1987, short), Japanese-English Pictionary (Hyakka Zukan, 1989, short), Kipling Jr. (1995, short), Mount Head (Atama-yama, 2002, short), Franz Kafka's A Country Doctor (Kafka inaka isha, 2007, short), Dozens of Norths (Ikuta no kita, 2021).
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