It puts you inside the walk home. Two cans of beer, a bottle of wine, a heart that just got wrecked, and the specific wobble of a city street when you've been drinking since the last train. The rakugo framing is the whole trick: one comic voice carrying the entire story, timing doing the work that budget can't, punchlines landing exactly where a sober narrator would have flinched. It's a first-year Geidai grad project from 2019, which means no committee sanded the weird edges off, and the pop culture riffs cut in like the thoughts you actually have when you're tipsy and miserable. Nothing explodes. Nobody transforms. It's a guy talking himself home, and the people who find it never shut up about it for a reason.
After a heartbreak, the narrator buys a couple of cans of beer and a bottle of wine and drinks them on the walk home. That unsteady trip is retold through rakugo, Japan's traditional comic storytelling art, combined with pop culture elements. The short film is an adventure comedy about one tipsy journey, and it was made in 2019 as a first-year student work in the animation department of the Tokyo University of the Arts graduate film and new media school.
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