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His Motorbike, Her Island

Kare no ōtobai, kanojo no shima
dir. Nobuhiko Ôbayashi
Japan 1986, 90’
subtitles: Polish and English

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Polish premiere
Theatrical Screenings
Th 13 Nov, 18:15
Kinoteka 1
Kinoteka 1
Su 16 Nov, 21:15
Kinoteka 1
Kinoteka 1
Film also presented during the festival showcase in Poznań (20–23.11)
Credits
Japan 1986
Duration: 90’
director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi
screenplay: Ikuo Sekimoto na podstawie powieści Yoshio Kataoki
cinematography: Yoshitaka Sakamoto
editing: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi
music: Hikaru Ishikawa, Naoshi Miyazaki
cast: Kiwako Harada, Riki Takeuchi, Noriko Watanabe, Tomokazu Miura
producer: Michio Morioka, Kyôko Ôbayashi
production: Kadokawa Haruki Jimusho
language: Japanese
colouration: colour
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Film description

After yet another failed relationship, the hot-tempered romantic Ko mounts his Kawasaki W3 650 and rides off with no destination. On one of the islands, he meets Miyo – a girl for whom freedom and speed are as natural as breathing. Their romance is born to the accompaniment of crashing waves and the roar of an engine, from aimless journeys on a motorcycle where nothing matters but the wind in their hair and the presence of another. Yet Miyo’s obsession with speed gradually awakens fear in Ko.

Nobuhiko Ōbayashi, the visionary creator of the cult classic “House”, in his most poetic road movie, offers a fervent love letter to lost youth. From the landscapes of southern Japan, he weaves a mosaic of hypnotic spaces that echo the conviction that youth will last forever. “His Motorbike, Her Island” is a film that throbs with the pulse of summer, where a passionate romance is suffused with the melancholy of passing days and defiance against adulthood. In Japan, it achieved cult status as a hymn to youth rushing forward before anyone can stop it.

The film will be screened in a restored 4K version.

text:
Łukasz Mańkowski

Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Nobuhiko Ōbayashi is one of the most peculiar and fascinating figures in Japanese cinema. A visionary, experimenter, master of editing and color, whose work defies simple categorization. He made his debut in the 1970s, immediately gaining cult status thanks to Hausu, a crazy collage of horror, comedy, and surrealism. In the following decades, he created an impressive filmography, combining genre cinema with poetic nostalgia, pop culture, and reflections on memory and transience. In the 1980s and 1990s, he was one of the most important voices in Japanese popular cinema, redefining its language and sensibility while maintaining complete artistic independence. In Poland, his films remain virtually unknown, even though his oeuvre includes dozens of titles that are hugely popular in Japan. Ōbayashi remains an inimitable artist—his cinema is pure energy of imagination, sentimental and anarchic at the same time.

Filmography:

1977 Hausu / House / Dom

1982 Tenkōsei / I Are You, You Am Me

1983 Toki o Kakeru Shōjo / The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

1985 Sabishinbo / Lonely Heart

1986 Jego motor, jej wyspa / Kare no ōtobai, kanojo no shima / His Motorbike, Her Island

1988 Ijin Tachi to no Natsu / The Discarnates

1989 Pekin no Suika / Beijing Watermelon

1998 Sada

2012 Kono sora no hana: Nagaoka hanabi monogatari / Casting Blossoms to the Sky

2014 No no nanananoka / Seven Weeks

2017 Hanagatami

2019 Labyrinth of Cinema

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