Postman does not ride a bicycle around my neighborhood yet Postman Blues on Day 2 (January 28) of the Sabu Film Retrospective titled Run, Salaryman, Run! at Japan Society in New York rings a bell.
Replace working for the yankee dollar with working for the yen and you got it.
Program offers this take on Sabu's work:
"Born Hiroyuki Tanaka (1964), Sabu is the cult auteur of "punk n' roll," alternative comedies, often imitated, never equaled, and far too rarely shown in the U.S. since his 1996 feature debut, Non-Stop a.k.a DANGAN Runner (included in our line-up). In a world of hazards and happenstance, Sabu zeroes in on blue and white collar everymen tossed into dangerously absurd situations from which they desperately try to run. As things speed along, Sabu brings a fresh and frantic twist to traditional film genres (the yakuza film, the thriller, etc.), giving their lean and clean-cropped premises the electroshock treatment and über edgy music scores."
Director Sabu will actually be present and introducing movies and answering questions after show for first 3 films, Monday, Postman Blues and Non Stop A.K.A Dangan Runner.
Celluloid heroes for Tokyo Thursdays # 175
Previously: Snow, See Through Phone, Tokujin Yoshioka