Part of the 2006 season: Comic Proportions
Nowhere Man
Muno No Hito
Director Naoto Takenaka
1991
An eccentric comedy-drama about a down-on-his-luck comic-book artist who turns his hand to selling shaped, polished rocks that he fishes from the Tama River. Unfortunately his new career doesn’t take off as he’d hoped and begins to cause tension at home. Based on a cult manga by Yoshiharu Tsuge and winner of the FIPRESCI prize at the 1991 Venice Film Festival.