{"product_id":"plastic-yamato-california-blu-ray","title":"Plastic \/ Yamato (California) (BLU-RAY)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CmSGEE1ijCE?si=HNdV1btq3nBws1dX\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" frameborder=\"0\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlastic: Promised to a record deal that didn’t work out, teenage Jun (Takuma Fujie, August My Heaven) arrives in Nagoya as a transfer student with dashed dreams. One day, his busking of songs by Exne Kedy catches the eye of fellow fan Ibuki (An Ogawa, Heaven Is Still Far Away) and the pair soon falls in love over their shared musical taste. But as adult responsibilities loom, prospects in Tokyo beckon and a global pandemic hits, they slowly drift apart… Until the legendary Exne Kedy announce a reunion tour. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInspired by Kensuke Ide’s 2021 concept album Strolling Planet ’74, in which frontman Kensuke Ide transformed his band into the fictitious 70s glam rock group Exne Kedy and the Poltergeists, Daisuke Miyazaki’s Plastic is a colorful, rock-inflected coming-of-age tale tracking the disilliusionment of Japanese youth. Following his breakout hip-hop drama Yamato (California) (2016, also included in this release) and the  Osaka-set thriller Videophobia (2019), Miyazaki showcases a keen sensibility for epochal longing, teenage loneliness, as well as for the vanishing sounds and places of everyday Japan. Dreamy, even cosmic at times, Plastic is an atypical romance  examining how love for art shapes us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYamato (California): Sakura (Hanae Kan, Nobody Knows), a moody teenager, lives in Yamato, Japan. A small town one hour away from Tokyo, it is unremarkable in every way except for the massive US  military base that remains at its center. This closeness to American culture has also shaped Sakura’s consciousness: she dreams of becoming a rapper, like the American musicians she admires. Already feeling like an outsider  in her own home, her routine is further disturbed when a young Japanese-American girl, Rei (Nina Endo, Tourism), visits from the States. The daughter of an absent G.I. that her mother is dating, Rei has friendship to spare... which Sakura initially resists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYamato (California), Daisuke Miyazaki’s sophomore film following End of Night (2011), stands out to this day as his most personal and heartfelt: a tale of growing up in Yamato (the director’s own home town) at a particular nexus of postwar histories and imperialisms both large and small, cultural and otherwise. Taking the military base as his backdrop and symbolic gateway to address the long-standing influence of American culture on Japanese society, Miyazaki weaves a musical coming-of-age film affectionate of slackers yet propelled by a creative impulse to make life worth remembering.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-userformat='{\"2\":4993,\"3\":{\"1\":0},\"10\":2,\"11\":4,\"12\":0,\"15\":\"Arial\"}' data-sheets-value='{\"1\":2,\"2\":\"Shunzo (Bengal) and his wife Michi (Masako Motai) run a beloved greengrocer on the outskirts of Tokyo. When Lee, a struggling exchange student from China, visits the shop but is unable to afford the produce, an uneasy relationship sprouts. Begrudgingly, Shunzo agrees to lower his prices. Soon, Lee’s classmates begin frequenting the shop. As Shunzo’s generosity sneaks up on him and strains his family’s welfare, he confronts his role as surrogate father to his newfound Chinese friends.\\n\\n\\nShot between May - July of 1989 and addressing the historically charged notion of a Sino-Japanese friendship, this lesser-seen masterpiece from director Nobuhiko Obayashi (House) chronicles the end of a decade marked by the Japanese economic bubble and the brutal close of possibility in China. A delicate elegy to the Chinese students of its time, Beijing Watermelon finds Obayashi at his most modern, channeling the style of Yasujiro Ozu, while his experimental flourishes provide the perfect disruption, inviting viewers to fill in the blanks of history.\\n\"}' data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003edirected by: Daisuke Miyazaki\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-userformat='{\"2\":4993,\"3\":{\"1\":0},\"10\":2,\"11\":4,\"12\":0,\"15\":\"Arial\"}' data-sheets-value='{\"1\":2,\"2\":\"Shunzo (Bengal) and his wife Michi (Masako Motai) run a beloved greengrocer on the outskirts of Tokyo. When Lee, a struggling exchange student from China, visits the shop but is unable to afford the produce, an uneasy relationship sprouts. Begrudgingly, Shunzo agrees to lower his prices. Soon, Lee’s classmates begin frequenting the shop. As Shunzo’s generosity sneaks up on him and strains his family’s welfare, he confronts his role as surrogate father to his newfound Chinese friends.\\n\\n\\nShot between May - July of 1989 and addressing the historically charged notion of a Sino-Japanese friendship, this lesser-seen masterpiece from director Nobuhiko Obayashi (House) chronicles the end of a decade marked by the Japanese economic bubble and the brutal close of possibility in China. A delicate elegy to the Chinese students of its time, Beijing Watermelon finds Obayashi at his most modern, channeling the style of Yasujiro Ozu, while his experimental flourishes provide the perfect disruption, inviting viewers to fill in the blanks of history.\\n\"}' data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003estarring: An Ogawa,Takuma Fujie; Hanae Kan, Nina Endo\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-userformat='{\"2\":4993,\"3\":{\"1\":0},\"10\":2,\"11\":4,\"12\":0,\"15\":\"Arial\"}' data-sheets-value='{\"1\":2,\"2\":\"Shunzo (Bengal) and his wife Michi (Masako Motai) run a beloved greengrocer on the outskirts of Tokyo. When Lee, a struggling exchange student from China, visits the shop but is unable to afford the produce, an uneasy relationship sprouts. Begrudgingly, Shunzo agrees to lower his prices. Soon, Lee’s classmates begin frequenting the shop. As Shunzo’s generosity sneaks up on him and strains his family’s welfare, he confronts his role as surrogate father to his newfound Chinese friends.\\n\\n\\nShot between May - July of 1989 and addressing the historically charged notion of a Sino-Japanese friendship, this lesser-seen masterpiece from director Nobuhiko Obayashi (House) chronicles the end of a decade marked by the Japanese economic bubble and the brutal close of possibility in China. A delicate elegy to the Chinese students of its time, Beijing Watermelon finds Obayashi at his most modern, channeling the style of Yasujiro Ozu, while his experimental flourishes provide the perfect disruption, inviting viewers to fill in the blanks of history.\\n\"}' data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2023, 2016 \/ 222 min (combined) \/ 1.78:1, 1.85:1 \/ Japanese DTS-HD MA 2.0, 5.1\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-userformat='{\"2\":4993,\"3\":{\"1\":0},\"10\":2,\"11\":4,\"12\":0,\"15\":\"Arial\"}' data-sheets-value='{\"1\":2,\"2\":\"Shunzo (Bengal) and his wife Michi (Masako Motai) run a beloved greengrocer on the outskirts of Tokyo. When Lee, a struggling exchange student from China, visits the shop but is unable to afford the produce, an uneasy relationship sprouts. Begrudgingly, Shunzo agrees to lower his prices. Soon, Lee’s classmates begin frequenting the shop. As Shunzo’s generosity sneaks up on him and strains his family’s welfare, he confronts his role as surrogate father to his newfound Chinese friends.\\n\\n\\nShot between May - July of 1989 and addressing the historically charged notion of a Sino-Japanese friendship, this lesser-seen masterpiece from director Nobuhiko Obayashi (House) chronicles the end of a decade marked by the Japanese economic bubble and the brutal close of possibility in China. A delicate elegy to the Chinese students of its time, Beijing Watermelon finds Obayashi at his most modern, channeling the style of Yasujiro Ozu, while his experimental flourishes provide the perfect disruption, inviting viewers to fill in the blanks of history.\\n\"}' data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003eAdditional info:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan data-sheets-userformat='{\"2\":4993,\"3\":{\"1\":0},\"10\":2,\"11\":4,\"12\":0,\"15\":\"Arial\"}' data-sheets-value='{\"1\":2,\"2\":\"Shunzo (Bengal) and his wife Michi (Masako Motai) run a beloved greengrocer on the outskirts of Tokyo. When Lee, a struggling exchange student from China, visits the shop but is unable to afford the produce, an uneasy relationship sprouts. Begrudgingly, Shunzo agrees to lower his prices. Soon, Lee’s classmates begin frequenting the shop. As Shunzo’s generosity sneaks up on him and strains his family’s welfare, he confronts his role as surrogate father to his newfound Chinese friends.\\n\\n\\nShot between May - July of 1989 and addressing the historically charged notion of a Sino-Japanese friendship, this lesser-seen masterpiece from director Nobuhiko Obayashi (House) chronicles the end of a decade marked by the Japanese economic bubble and the brutal close of possibility in China. A delicate elegy to the Chinese students of its time, Beijing Watermelon finds Obayashi at his most modern, channeling the style of Yasujiro Ozu, while his experimental flourishes provide the perfect disruption, inviting viewers to fill in the blanks of history.\\n\"}' data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-userformat='{\"2\":12973,\"3\":{\"1\":0},\"5\":{\"1\":[{\"1\":2,\"2\":0,\"5\":{\"1\":2,\"2\":0}},{\"1\":0,\"2\":0,\"3\":3},{\"1\":1,\"2\":0,\"4\":1}]},\"6\":{\"1\":[{\"1\":2,\"2\":0,\"5\":{\"1\":2,\"2\":0}},{\"1\":0,\"2\":0,\"3\":3},{\"1\":1,\"2\":0,\"4\":1}]},\"8\":{\"1\":[{\"1\":2,\"2\":0,\"5\":{\"1\":2,\"2\":0}},{\"1\":0,\"2\":0,\"3\":3},{\"1\":1,\"2\":0,\"4\":1}]},\"10\":0,\"12\":0,\"15\":\"Calibri\",\"16\":11}' data-sheets-value='{\"1\":2,\"2\":\"2K restoration \\nInterview with Chigumi Obayashi \\nTheatrical Trailer \u0026amp; Teaser\\nOptional English subtitles\\nBooklet with new writing by Aaron Gerow\\nNew art by Qiu Jiongjiong of A New Old Play (Kani 010)\\nLogo design by Leo Mak\"}' data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003eRegion A Blu-ray\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-userformat='{\"2\":4993,\"3\":{\"1\":0},\"10\":2,\"11\":4,\"12\":0,\"15\":\"Arial\"}' data-sheets-value='{\"1\":2,\"2\":\"Shunzo (Bengal) and his wife Michi (Masako Motai) run a beloved greengrocer on the outskirts of Tokyo. When Lee, a struggling exchange student from China, visits the shop but is unable to afford the produce, an uneasy relationship sprouts. Begrudgingly, Shunzo agrees to lower his prices. Soon, Lee’s classmates begin frequenting the shop. As Shunzo’s generosity sneaks up on him and strains his family’s welfare, he confronts his role as surrogate father to his newfound Chinese friends.\\n\\n\\nShot between May - July of 1989 and addressing the historically charged notion of a Sino-Japanese friendship, this lesser-seen masterpiece from director Nobuhiko Obayashi (House) chronicles the end of a decade marked by the Japanese economic bubble and the brutal close of possibility in China. A delicate elegy to the Chinese students of its time, Beijing Watermelon finds Obayashi at his most modern, channeling the style of Yasujiro Ozu, while his experimental flourishes provide the perfect disruption, inviting viewers to fill in the blanks of history.\\n\"}' data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-userformat='{\"2\":12973,\"3\":{\"1\":0},\"5\":{\"1\":[{\"1\":2,\"2\":0,\"5\":{\"1\":2,\"2\":0}},{\"1\":0,\"2\":0,\"3\":3},{\"1\":1,\"2\":0,\"4\":1}]},\"6\":{\"1\":[{\"1\":2,\"2\":0,\"5\":{\"1\":2,\"2\":0}},{\"1\":0,\"2\":0,\"3\":3},{\"1\":1,\"2\":0,\"4\":1}]},\"8\":{\"1\":[{\"1\":2,\"2\":0,\"5\":{\"1\":2,\"2\":0}},{\"1\":0,\"2\":0,\"3\":3},{\"1\":1,\"2\":0,\"4\":1}]},\"10\":0,\"12\":0,\"15\":\"Calibri\",\"16\":11}' data-sheets-value='{\"1\":2,\"2\":\"2K restoration \\nInterview with Chigumi Obayashi \\nTheatrical Trailer \u0026amp; Teaser\\nOptional English subtitles\\nBooklet with new writing by Aaron Gerow\\nNew art by Qiu Jiongjiong of A New Old Play (Kani 010)\\nLogo design by Leo Mak\"}' data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHigh Definition presentation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInterview with Daisuke Miyazaki on Yamato (California), in Yamato (2024, 23 minutes)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlastic on Tour: extended Q\u0026amp;A in Sydney, Australia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBooklet with stills and new writing by film critic Alexandre Fontaine Rousseau\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOptional English subtitles\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew cover artwork by Louis-Alexandre Beauregard\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Kani Releasing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44145114284232,"sku":"KANI-020","price":49.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/8486\/3688\/files\/Plastic-Yamatobd.jpg?v=1727820737","url":"https:\/\/videomatica.com\/products\/plastic-yamato-california-blu-ray","provider":"Videomatica Ltd (since 1983)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}