![]() ![]() 'There's got to be some more meaningful life out there. 'Is this it?' he says in a moment of bitter reflection. And when things go wrong, he imagines he could have attained said bliss had he joined a different club or chosen a different girl. ![]() Desperate to package his life into a perfect, rosy university adventure in which he's popular and girls love him, he only ends up encountering disaster. The main character Watashi (literally meaning 'I') happens to be stuck in a metaphorical 4.5 tatami room because he put himself there. Anyone who spends their days in a 4.5 tatami apartment is in many ways effectively contained, packaged, cut off. But in its simplest form, it is also a box. Here, his symbol is the '4.5 tatami' apartment, a product of Japanese modernity that can incorporate everything anyone needs to live in a claustrophobic sort of efficiency. He did it before in the buoyant Mind Game, in which he taught us to love life, and he's done it again in Yojouhan Shinwa Taikei, which tells us not to take it for granted. StoryDirector Masaaki Yuasa has a talent for capturing the post-modern twenty-something male ripe with paranoia and grossly ill-equipped to deal with adulthood. ![]()
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