By Sion Sono
When filmmaker Tadashi Kobayashi begins to hold open auditions for a new studio-sponsored film, a wave of experienced and aspiring actors scramble to apply, yearning for a chance to work with the genius director. Behind the scenes, however, Kobayashi struggles to finish the script on schedule and the production quickly spirals out of control.
A funny, chaotic and consistently interesting showcase of Sion Sono's versatile talents (whose latest film starring Nicolas Cage premiered at 2021 Sundance Film Festival), Red Post on Escher Street is a return-to-roots film for the director that develops, in typical Sono fashion, into a boldly subversive affair¡ªa brazenly tongue-in-cheek portrait of the Japanese film industry that harkens to Sono's own career as one of the most distinctive voices in world cinema.
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