The Kingdom (Ôkoku) (王国) (1973) | 480p mp4

The Kingdom (1973)

Original title: Ôkoku (王国)
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Japanese experimental / avant-garde film directed by Katsu Kanai.

A popular poet named Goku Katsumaru becomes depressed after his editor jokingly calls him a sell-out to his times. Determined to become a poet for all eternity, he encounters a team of pickpockets plotting to steal time and later a bird doctor researching the internal clocks of migrating birds in order to free himself from the bonds of time. Using the knowledge he gains, Goku embarks on a strange journey from the suburbs of Tokyo all the way to the Galapagos Islands in a quest for total transcendence.

The final chapter (“Heavenly Chapter”) of Kanai’s Smiling Milky Way Trilogy. Surreal, mythic, and obsessed with conquering the god of time.

Runtime: approx. 80–87 min. Language: Japanese.

Hard-coded English subtitles