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ROBINSON’S GARDEN
1987
Director
Masashi Yamamoto
Starring
Kumiko Ohta
Kou Machida
Tuko Ueno
Chika Imai
Runtime
119 minutes
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On a drunken walk home, bohemian drug dealer Kumi (Kumiko Ohta) discovers an abandoned building on the outskirts of Tokyo. Attracted by the vast, untapped space overrun with luxuriant vegetation (and its potential for drug-addled isolation), she promptly sells all of her belongings and retreats from the world. She carves an island for herself out of the sprawling squat, where she is free to grow cabbage and express herself in any way she pleases—only interrupted by the occasional intrusion from her lover, left behind in civilization, and a mysteriously antagonistic pig-tailed girl who seems to live in the landscape.
Lensed by frequent Jim Jarmusch collaborator Tom DiCillo, Masashi Yamamoto’s anticapitalist punk statement ROBINSON'S GARDEN is a radical vision of a multicultural, marginal Tokyo, far removed from the dominant, consumerist image of the city during the bustling era of Japan’s economic bubble.
“A punk movie that understands being a punk isn’t just about being a charismatic sociopath who does a lot of drugs. being a punk is also about half-heartedly doing a pushup, walking around a forest despondently kicking grass, and getting really into gardening but being kind of shitty at it.” - Michael DeForge
Lensed by frequent Jim Jarmusch collaborator Tom DiCillo, Masashi Yamamoto’s anticapitalist punk statement ROBINSON'S GARDEN is a radical vision of a multicultural, marginal Tokyo, far removed from the dominant, consumerist image of the city during the bustling era of Japan’s economic bubble.
“A punk movie that understands being a punk isn’t just about being a charismatic sociopath who does a lot of drugs. being a punk is also about half-heartedly doing a pushup, walking around a forest despondently kicking grass, and getting really into gardening but being kind of shitty at it.” - Michael DeForge