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The Nineteen Year-Old's Map (1979)

Posted By: shinkai
The Nineteen Year-Old's Map (1979)

The Nineteen Year-Old's Map / Jukyusai no chizu (1979)
DVD-Rip by stahl | Japanese | Subtitles: English (.srt) | 1:49:45 | 720x416 (AR: 1.731) | NTSC (23.976 fps) | Xvid | MP3 - 231 kb/s [2 channel(s)] VBR | 1,37 GB
Genre: Drama | Director: Mitsuo Yanagimachi | IMDB-Rating: 7.2/10


Yanagimachi's first feature film is about a young man who makes a map of a neighborhood in which he delivers newspapers. He keeps a dossier on each family, recording their habits and rating how much he dislikes them. One family, for example, gets an X because their dog barks all the time. Another man gets an X because he refuses to pay his bill. What turns all this scary is that the young man declares "I'm a right-winger!" and starts ruthlessly calling in bomb threats on these families. He psychologically abuses the crippled mistress of his roommate until she is driven to the brink of suicide. Rather than coming up with pat explanations for such anti-social behavior, Yanagimachi only describes the actions and lets the viewer decide why these things are happening. Questions of personal responsibility versus societal influences are completely left to the viewer to sort out.