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Shinboru (しんぼる)

Symbol

Director

Hitoshi Matsumoto

Synopsis

A man wakes up in a white empty room, with nothing apart from strange "buttons". He needs to push the correct buttons in order to get what he wants.

Cast

Hitoshi Matsumoto, David Quintero, Luis Accinelli, Lilian Tapia, Adriana Fricke, Ivana Wong, Arkangel de la Muerte, Matcho Panpu, Dick Togo

Crew

Writer: Hitoshi Matsumoto, Mitsuyoshi Takasu; Composer: Yasuaki Shimizu; Cinematographer: Yasuyuki Tôyama; Editor: Yoshitaka Honda

Festivals

TIFF - Toronto International Film Festival, Busan International Film Festival, Warsaw Film Festival, IFFR - International Film Festival Rotterdam

Director's Filmography

- R100, 2013

- Scabbard Samurai (Saya Zamurai; さや侍), 2011

- Symbol (Shinboru; しんぼる), 2009

- Big Man Japan (Dai-Nihonjin; 大日本人), 2007

- Zassā (ザッサー), short, 200

- Sasuke (佐助), short, 2001

- Visualbum Vol. Grape – Relief (ビジュアルバム Vol. ブドウ安心), short, 1999

- Visualbum Vol. Banana–Kindness (ビジュアルバム Vol. バナナ親切), short, 1998

- Visualbum Vol. Apple – Promise (ビジュアルバム Vol. リンゴ約束), short, 1998

- Sundome Kaikyō (寸止め海峡), short, 1995

- Tōzu (頭頭), short, 1993

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