The Deserted Archipelago
A young man reaches adolescence and escapes the nunnery where he survived a tortured upbringing; the world outside suddenly seems even more frightening than before.
Katsu Kanai
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Also Directed by Katsu Kanai
A popular poet, Goku, becomes depressed when his editor jokingly suggests that he is a sell-out.
It’s said that people die twice. The first death is a physical one and the second, true death comes when there is no one to remember that person.
Digital video short by Kanai Katsu (2003) 33' Japan
An aphasic young boy living in South Korea meets, on one of his regular paths, a “Koguryo Beauty” who shows him how to trace his heritage
The Stormy Times is a collection of three short films created as a series of visual poems (Dream Running, Grasshopper’s One-Game Match, andWe Can Hear Joe’s Poem). Katsu Kanai screened this films together, along with extra documentary footage, as a memorial to his friend Jônouchi Motoharu.
