Five Flavours Festival: His Motorbike, Her Island
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TypeGrand Hall
After yet another failed relationship, the hot-tempered romantic Ko mounts his Kawasaki W3 650 and rides off with no destination. On one of the islands, he meets Miyo – a girl for whom freedom and speed are as natural as breathing. Their romance is born to the accompaniment of crashing waves and the roar of an engine, from aimless journeys on a motorcycle where nothing matters but the wind in their hair and the presence of another. Yet Miyo’s obsession with speed gradually awakens fear in Ko.
Nobuhiko Ōbayashi, the visionary creator of the cult classic “House”, in his most poetic road movie, offers a fervent love letter to lost youth. From the landscapes of southern Japan, he weaves a mosaic of hypnotic spaces that echo the conviction that youth will last forever. “His Motorbike, Her Island” is a film that throbs with the pulse of summer, where a passionate romance is suffused with the melancholy of passing days and defiance against adulthood. In Japan, it achieved cult status as a hymn to youth rushing forward before anyone can stop it.
The film will be screened in a restored 4K version.
HIS MOTORBIKE, HER ISLAND, dir. Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, Japan 1986, 90’
subtitles: Polish and English
