Hidden Japan: Satoshi Miki - The Washington Post

Three of Miki’s flicks will screen at the Freer Gallery over the weekend as part of the “Roads to the Interior: Another Side of Japanese Cinema” series, and the director will be on hand to introduce and discuss all of them (through an interpreter).

Miki’s latest, 2007’s “Adrift in Tokyo” (“Tenten“), screens 7 p.m. Friday, is filled with the random slapstick that makes his movies sometimes seem like a mixture of the French “New Wave” and The Three Stooges. An aimless law student with no friends or family owes 800,000 yen, but a churlish debt collector has a change of heart when something traumatic happens in his life. He offers to clear the debt if the student, played with dopey cool by Jo Odagiri, accompanies him on a walk through Tokyo, where themes of family, love and human relationships are subtly explored against the city’s gray, urban backdrop.

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