オダギリジョー コレクション(DVD) (6-Disc) (Korea Version), 2009

This Korea Version 6-Disc Odagiri Joe Boxed Set comes with the following six films starring Odagiri Joe:

 

Tokyo Tower - Mom & Me, And Sometimes Dad (2007 / 141 min)
Subtitle: Korean, Japanese
Based on Lily Franky's bestselling novel, Tokyo Tower - Mom & Me, and Sometimes Dad focuses on a touching mother-son relationship amidst the lights of 1970s Tokyo. Odagiri Joe stars as Masaya, who moves to Tokyo by himself at a young age to study art. He takes after both his parents, and is often balancing both the good and the bad he has inherited from his strong, gentle mother and reckless, irresponsible father. Lost in the bright lights of the big city, he struggles to make a living. Everything changes one day when he finds out that his mother (Kiki Kirin) has been diagnosed with cancer. Directed by Matsuoka Joji, the film won Best Film, Director, Screenplay, Actress, and Supporting Actor at the 31st Japan Academy Awards.

 

Adrift in Tokyo (2007 / 101 min)
Subtitle: Korean, Japanese
To see Tokyo in all it's wacky and scenic splendor, take a long walk with Adrift in Tokyo, a brilliantly manic road comedy from director Miki Satoshi starring the unbeatable tag team of Odagiri Joe and Miura Tomokazu. Both actors are playing roles they could do in their sleep - prickly middle-ager and slacker student with unfortunate hair - and they bring the exact combination of calm calamity and charismatic craziness the film calls for. In the grand tradition of male bonding road movies, Adrift in Tokyo is just the aimless story of two strange guys walking around Tokyo for a few days and the stranger adventures they encounter - and yet, it's so much more.

 

Mushishi (2006 / 130 min)
Subtitle: Korean
Based on Urushibara Yuki's award-winning manga, Akira director Otomo Katsuhiro's live-action Mushishi is a mellow, atmospheric, and enchanting period fantasy that smartly avoids the excesses of the genre. Set in a world of mystic forests, wandering ascetics, and magical creatures, the film still manages to be subtle and organic, thanks to the beautiful natural scenery and selective use of CGI. Odagiri Joe is perfectly cast as silver-haired bugmaster Ginko. who roams the country curing people of mushi, mystical creatures that cause sickness in human beings. His travels bring him to a village of deafs, a little girl with horns, and longtime friend Tanyu (Aoi Yu), whose mushi is too strong to rid. As Ginko struggles to cure Tanyu, the mushi that lies deep within him is awakened.

 

Princess Raccoon (2005 / 111 min)
Subtitle: Korean
Famed 1960s cult film director Suzuki Seijun teams up with international star Zhang Ziyi and Odagiri Joe for Princess Raccoon, a colorful, musically diverse, song and dance filled love story that's like nothing audiences have ever seen before. The film centers on a raccoon spirit princess who suddenly falls in love with a handsome prince who finds himself exiled from his vainglorious father's kingdom. Will the two lovers stay together or will fate tear them apart? With its kaleidoscope of top of the line special effects, surreal painted backdrops, and self-consciously theatrical soundstages, Princess Raccoon is a psychedelic, hallucinatory, and ultimately joyous cinematic experience, making it a true spectacle in every sense of the word!

 

In the Pool (2005 / 100 min)
Subtitle: Korean
Director Miki Satoshi's hilariously idiosyncratic comedy revolves around gruff and scraggly psychiatrist Dr. Irabu (Matsuo Suzuki) who treats his patients - ordinary stressed-out urbanites with extraordinary ailments - using some rather unconventional methods. Odagiri Joe plays one of his patients, a repressed salesman who is suffering from a permanent erection.

 

The Pavillion Salamandre (2006 / 98 min)
Subtitle: Korean
Already acclaimed in film circles for his indie DV shorts, Tominaga Masanori takes things to the next level with his debut feature The Pavilion Salamandre. The film completely defies genre and narrative conventions with a bizarre story about a family's fight over a century-old celebrity salamander. Thanks to generous subsidies from the government, the Ninomiyas live in spoiled luxury managing the Salamander Kinjiro Foundation, but a gang leader wants buy out the foundation. Youngest daughter Azuki (Kashii Yu) is not about to let the blobby one fall into the wrong hands, but rumor is that Kinjiro is actually a fake. That's when quirky, wandering X-ray technician Tobishima Hoichi (Odagiri Joe) comes into play..