Tadasuke KOTANI 小谷忠典
Tamaran Hill
Nippon Visions ½
Hinako comes across the novel “Tamaran Hill” and immediately starts reading it with delight, as “tamaran” (intolerable) happens to be her father’s favorite swear word. She soon imagines herself inside the book’s story, which also deals with someone intrigued with that particular word, and even meets the real-life author Senji KUROI there. Tadasuke KOTANI mixes narrative and essayistic forms to create a playful ode to literature, writing, and the ambiguity of the Japanese language.
たまらん坂
Tamaranzaka
日本 2019
86 分
About Tadasuke KOTANI
小谷忠典
Tadasuke KOTANI, born in Osaka in 1977, first studied painting and then film at Visual Arts College Osaka. His directorial debut LULLABY (2002) was awarded at the Kyoto International Student Film & Video Festival. In 2008, he made his first feature-length documentary film LINE, which won the Cult Award at the 2009 Torino Film Festival. His second documentary THE CAT THAT LIVED A MILLION TIMES (2012) premiered at the Busan International Film Festival. In 2020, Nippon Connection screened his experimental feature film TAMARAN HILL (2019).