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Fancy Dance
Fanshi dansu
1989
Synopsis
Yohei, a popular punk rocker, agrees to become a Buddhist monk to inherit his family’s lucrative temple. Though initially rebelling against the tough monastic discipline, he learns to adjust. When Yohei’s estranged girlfriend comes to drag him back to secular life, he finds himself at a crossroads.
Editorial
Tradition and youth culture hilariously collide in Masayuki Suo’s auspicious break into popular filmmaking, a blueprint for his later portraits of social misfits. Juxtaposing slapstick mishaps with ascetic decorum, guitar riffs with mantras, Fancy Dance reaches for enlightenment through pure chaos.
