A Man Vanishes (1967)

Original title

人間蒸発

Directed by

Shohei Imamura

Genre

documentary film

Country

Japan

Runtime

2h 09m

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 25 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A film crew investigates the disappearance of a man in Japan. The documentary blurs the line between reality and fiction as the search unfolds.

unsettlingambiguousrealisticreflectiveslow-pacedobservationalthought-provokingunpredictable

What happens

A Man Vanishes (人間蒸発, Ningen jōhatsu) (lit. Evaporation of a person) is a 1967 Japanese pseudo documentary film by director Shōhei Imamura about a film team's search for a man reported missing. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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