The spoof trend continues with ‘Homeless ga Chugakusei’
Posted by kevin at 6:29pm on Monday, October 6, 2008 EDT
Filed under: Comedy, Future releases, New trailers
Spoofs seem to have been gaining steam in the Japanese movie industry over the past few years—from Minoru Kawasaki’s spoof of The Sinking of Japan, The World Sinks Except Japan; Kenji Murakami’s spoof of Always: Sunset on Third Street, Alldays: Nichome no Asahi; and Hideo Jojo’s spoof of Crows Zero, Gachi-ban. Now Jojo is returning with another cornball spoof: Homeless ga Chugakusei. Obviously it’s a direct parody of Homeless Chugakusei, the true story of a junior high school student who loses his home and has to live on his own in a local park. In Jojo’s version the story is flipped around so that a man goes back to junior high school after several decades of homelessness and introduces students to the world of dumpster-diving and living in tents. Check out the trailer after the break.
“Homeless ga Chugakusei” will get a limited release at Cinemart Rappongi on October 25, 2008—the same day “Homeless Chugakusei” opens nation-wide.
Tags: hachiro utsunomiya, hideo jojo, kai ato, spoof
