Dareka no mokkin (2016)

Dareka no mokkin: Directed by Yôichi Higashi. With Masanobu Katsumura, Takako Tokiwa, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Takahito Hosoyamada. Sayoko has moved away from the city centre and into the suburbs. She gets her hair done at a beauty salon. When she replies to a courtesy follow-up e-mail from the stylist things take an unexpected turn involving her visiting the home of the stylist, her husband and the barber’s girlfriend.

“Sometimes human want aberrant behavior that break the boring routine life. But the deviance human want are limited to small things as much it does not break the peace of oneu0026#39;s daily life. The meaning of the movieu0026#39;s title, xylophone, is just that much deviant behavior. A sound enough to break the silence, but not enough to break the peace.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIt could be an affair, it could be imagining an affair, more boldly, it could be stalking someone, or it could be being stalked by someone. The characters in the film accept it as a fresh variation of life, as long as the variation does not break their life. Of course, it didnu0026#39;t turn out to be the gentle breeze they wished for.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe acting of the female protagonist was also splendid, but the directing of the each scene was excellent both aesthetically and meaningfully. In particular, the last scene in which the female protagonist falls asleep after several yawns implicitly shows the theme of this movie.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWill you choose the pounding of catastrophe once again? Or will you cover a cozy blanket of boredom?u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIt was a delicate and wonderful film in that it touched the subtle impulses within the human psyche inside.”