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No matter how fervent their followers could also be for a film adaptation, novels referred to as unfilmable get that tag for a cause. Confronted with a masterpiece’s thickets of character and tangles of prose, filmmakers too usually both hack away or make one thing devoted however unwatchable.
Indie veteran Gakuryu Ishii took his personal darkish comedian strategy to Kobo Abe’s “unfilmable” 1973 novel, “The Box Man,” whose titular protagonist scuttles round Tokyo in a grimy cardboard field and scribbles his pensees in a tattered journal. Imagine an clever, literate, half-mad hermit crab.
After his 1997 try and movie “The Box Man” failed — key financing fell via — Ishii put the undertaking apart for many years. He lastly shot it with two of his authentic stars — Masatoshi Nagase and Tadanobu Asano — based mostly on a script he co-wrote with Kiyotaka Inagaki that makes the novel’s philosophical musings and metaphorical conundrums extra audience-friendly whereas not dumbing them down.
