The Mad Prince: The Japanese

Overview

The basis for the making of this film was a TV show to which many figures of the «youth culture» were invited. Boris Yukhananov turned this into a video project. This plot recurs twice in the film, forming a compositional counterbalance, at the beginning in the guise of a black-and-white television set, and at the end by means of the video action itself. Throughout the entire film we follow a Japanese man who is a kind of medium, a superhero, a bloated ghost of life after death, thus emphasizing the speculative spirit of the huge interest then being paid to «youth culture.» His adventures begin at a lecture podium that is replaced by an autopsy table in a morgue, and they gradually move on to an endless ritual dance with death in its various forms.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

June 21, 1988

Original language

Russian

Spoken languages

Russian

Countries

Soviet Union

Production

Cine Fantom

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

Homepage

Official site