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I AM A COMEDIAN

By Fumiari HYUGA

ARTICLE FILMS - as PROD

Documentary - Post-Production 2022

Banished from TV, one comedian battles to break the constraints of Japanese society through the power of Comedy

Festivals
& Awards

Tokyo International Film Festival 2022

DMZ International Documentary Film Festival 2022

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Documentary, Second film, Social issues
- Countries
- JAPAN, KOREA (South)
- Languages
- JAPANESE, ENGLISH
- Budget
- 0.6 - 1 M$
- Duration
- 108 mn
- Director(s)
- Fumiari HYUGA
- Cast
- Daisuke MURAMOTO
- Producer(s)
- Emi UEYAMA (ARTicle Films), Gary KAM
- Synopsis
- DaisukeMuramoto (39) has been in the entertainment industry for 20 years. In 2013, he became the champion in one of the most prestigious comedy contests in Japan, rising from a field of 1855 contestants. At the time he was flooded with offers, appearing on TV almost every day. However, because he repeatedly criticized politicians and made remarks about nuclear power plants, minority groups such as Korean Japanese aka Zainichi, or Korean comfort women, that is ostracized from society - topics that are regarded as taboos in the Japanese entertainment industry - in 7 years, Daisuke’s appearance on TV has plummeted to zero. In Japan, where harmony is highly valued, those who rock the boat are eliminated from society. In other words, Daisuke became regarded as a “troublemaker” by the entertainment industry.
  In spite of that, Daisuke refuses to change his style of comedy, because his goal is to “change the world with humor” by shedding light on the things that people choose not to see or touch upon