The film "Romantic Sense of Money" will be screened at Theatre Umeda on September 20th, 24th and 26th! Late show screening and talk event at Theatre Umeda on September 20, 24 and 26! Artworks drawn by the director, Mayu Midoricha, will be exhibited and sold!

2024.09.18 10:00

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Thank you for your continued support. Machi no Record will hold a late show screening and talk event of this film at Theatre Umeda on September 20 (Fri.), 24 (Tue.) and 26 (Thu.), 202. In addition, artwork drawn by the director, Mayu Midoricha, will be exhibited and sold in the theater lobby during the screening period as the most expensive goods in the movie theater.

What is Money?" The film, which won the Runner-up Grand Prix in the Feature Film Division of the Tokyo Documentary Film Festival in 2023 and the Filmmation Award at the 17th Tanabe-Benkei Film Festival, will be screened for three days at Theatre Umeda during the Tanabe-Benkei Film Festival Selection. The film will be screened at Theatre Umeda for three days during the Tanabe-Benkei Film Festival Selection. During the festival, guests will be invited daily to talk with the two directors.

Film "Romantic Sense of Money

Screening schedule for "Romantic Sense of Money

September 20 (Fri.) 20:30 - Guest: TBD

Tuesday, September 24, 20:30 - Guest: Kazuhiro Arai (President of eumo, a non-profit corporation)

Thursday, 26th 20:30 - Guest: Shinichi Takeshita (President of The Doctor Yellow Theater Company)

Guest of the talk on 24th: Kazuhiro Arai

Guest of the talk on 26th : Shinichi Takeshita

■"Romantic Money Sense" goods for sale

In addition to pamphlets and T-shirts for sale in the theater lobby during the screening period, one-of-a-kind paintings created for the film will be on display and for sale. 25cm x 25cm circular canvases depicting abstract motifs that symbolize the nature depicted in the film. The artwork, expressed in a variety of textures and geometric pattern style mixed media, will be sold for 200,000 yen (tax included) in the theater lobby.

Tanabe-Benkei Film Festival Selection 2024

The Tanabe-Benkei Film Festival Selection" is a special screening of award-winning films from the annual Tanabe-Benkei Film Festival held in Tanabe City, Wakayama Prefecture, at Theatre Shinjuku and Theatre Umeda. Last year, a record number of 188 films were submitted, out of which four, including "Romantic Sense of Money," were selected to be screened in the "Tanabe-Benkei Film Festival Selection 2024" (Bensele) at Theatre Shinjuku for three weeks starting on August 23, 2012. The three-week run in Tokyo was the highest attendance in Bensele's history.

Comments on the film

The film I loved the most at the Tanabe-Benkei Film Festival was "Romantic Sense of Money. I am sure there will be an ideal world of dreams ahead as we continue to ask unanswerable questions through "money". A never-before-seen must-see enjoyment.

Isshin Inudo (Film director)

According to Marx, commodity value is different from use value, and according to Osamu Hashimoto, poverty and poverty-ness are two different things. Fumi Koda writes that there is "Shiroto no kin" and "Kuroto no kin," and these days I am keenly aware that the money we pay to our friends and the money we receive back from corporations are two very different things.

Why is it that we are given only one standard by which to judge value? The fact that this film had to partially introduce fiction reminds us of the weight of the shackles placed on our imagination.

Atsushi Horibe (Owner, Seikosha)

This work was inspired by Michael Ende's "Ende's Testament," which he left behind in his later years, and its message, as well as the structure of the work itself, is reminiscent of Ende's "The Tale Without End. The inside and outside of the story, the false and real, eventually come together to create a groove and a celebration that involves the audience.

What is it about "money" that makes people happy or makes them anxious?

We are always interested in money, but for some reason most of us don't really understand what it is.

This is a spectacular experimental film that approaches the essence of money in a lighthearted and romantic way, something that has never been seen before. Just dance your own dance!" Receiving such a message, I felt like skipping ahead to the future.

Makoto Sasaki (Film director/Video director)

Livelihood, economy, and family. Directors Mayu Midoricha and Ryuzo Saeki attempt to make a multifaceted proposal about the state of society that will be essential in the future, while using a perspective far removed from the urban world. The important point is that they are the subjects of the film. This is one of the reasons why the film, with its fictional and documentary qualities, crosses film genres and blurs the line between fiction and reality. It is also a device that sprouts an awareness of the problems in the audience's mind by blurring the issues of ongoing problems in society, which is a very impressive feat.

Takeo Matsuzaki (film critic)

At the end of spring, when I was busy with taxes and other shit, I received this film from Ryuzo-kun.

Payments, transfers, fees.

We want to be free, but we find ourselves being urged by "money" and tied down by the fetters. It is in times like these that it is not a bad idea to take a break and think about "money" with Ryuzo-kun and his friends.

Toranosuke Aizawa (Kuuzoku)

I have been conveying the strangeness of the money system for more than a decade now, and have been thinking that it would be easier to convey the message through some kind of storytelling, such as a movie or a drama, but this was very difficult and never came to fruition. That is how "Romantic Money Sense" was born, an ambitious film that conveys the strangeness of today's money through a unique combination of fiction and documentary. Whether or not you usually feel uncomfortable with it, we hope you will watch it and feel something about money.

Tsuneki Onishi (politician)

When did we stop questioning things that exist for granted? When did someone decide that it has value? If money is a tool of exchange, why doesn't anyone teach us how to use it? If this film is a fiction, then money may actually be a fictional product. In our busyness, we tend to lose sight of the essence of what we are doing, and at the same time, we may be losing something important.

Yoshifumi Ikeda (Give Me Vegetables)

I would like to recommend this film to young people who are not aiming to become regular members of capitalist society.

I decided on my way of life after reading "How to Live Without Getting a Job" by Raymond Mango (Shobunsha, 1981), which I picked up by chance when I was a senior in college. By chance, the curtain opens on a new life. In "Romantic Financial Sense" by Ryuzo Saeki and Mayu Midoricha, the author says, "There is no road in front of me, but there will be a road behind me. There is no road in front of me, but there is a road behind me.

Haruhiko Daishima (film director)

Bank of Japan notes look like mere paper.

Cardboard currency looks like the most exquisite jewelry.

This is an adventure story of local currency dedicated to those who are tired of money.

Welcome to ZIPANGU, the land of the grass, the trees, the insects, and the fish.

Tatsushi Fujiwara (historian)

It was really a beautiful film.

I don't think there will be a better Japanese independent film in 2024.

Koushi Demachi(Film festival programmer)

Director's Profile

Mayu Ryokucha

Saeki Ryuzo (Saeki Ryuzo)

Two filmmakers living in Kansai. They have directed their own films individually until now, but this is their first film as co-directors. Saeki's previous works include the feature film "Asobi no lens" (2020), and Midoricha's short film "wind chime" (2017). Romantic Financial Sense" won the Runner-up Grand Prix in the Feature Film Competition at the Tokyo Documentary Film Festival 2023 and the Filmmation Award at the 17th Tanabe-Benkei Film Festival.

Romantic Sense of Money" Film Information

Story.

Film directors Ryuzo and Mayu are a duo of poor directors who work hard but always have no money. The reason is that they keep making independent films that do not sell well. One day, when they have run out of money, they begin to think about "money" that has been tormenting them. They enter a romantic economic zone called "local currency" and decide to visit the people who live there. It was the beginning of an epic journey to remember something important that we who use "legal tender" have somehow forgotten...

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Director/Screenplay/Editor : Mayu Midoricha, Ryuzo Saeki

Cinematography: Arata Kato, Toru Kurihara, Sorara Nishioka, Youshun Takagi

Cooperation: Yuru Yuru Eco-Village of Waste Materials, eumo, a non-profit corporation

Performers: Mayu Midoricha, Ryuzo Saeki

Mayu Midoricha, Ryuzo Saeki

Daiichiro Yuyama, Hiryu Sobashima, Kazuaki Egashira, Kazuhiro Arai, Kozo Takei

Running time: 115 min.

(c)Machi no Record

■Links

*Official SNS of the work, SNS of the director, official HP, etc.

Official HP ： https://filmromakin.com/