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Chasuke's Journey

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2015 · 106 min Drama Comedy Fantasy
6.4 / 10 · TMDB

Things are hectic in heaven. Dozens of scribes sit before a long scroll incessantly scribbling away. They are composing the biographies of earth-dwellers. What is invented by the men in heaven is lived out below. And their employer, God, is increasingly vehement in demanding avant-garde ideas. Take, for example, the beautiful Yuri, a girl who dies in a car crash. Some of the heavenly scribes find this very dull and send former gangster Chas, who has become a heavenly tea-boy, back down to earth with instructions to save Yuri no matter what. And so Chas ends up in Okinawa, gets to know the earth-dwellers, interferes in their fates, becomes celebrated as 'Mr Angel' and is hounded by brutal enemies. His falling in love with Yuri is of course a foregone conclusion. But no one could anticipate what happens next. Not even God himself

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Original Title 天の茶助
Year 2015
Country Japan
Genre Drama, Comedy, Fantasy
Director SABU
Runtime 106 min.
Rating TMDB: 6.4/10 (11 votes)

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Sogo Ishii constructs a fable at the intersection of farce and philosophy, using the absurd celestial bureaucracy as a lens for earthly passions and chance. The film relies on the contrast between a mechanistic heaven and the chaotic, vibrant life of Okinawa.

What lingers after the viewing is a warm sense that destiny is but a first draft, open to revision. The blend of gangster clashes, romance, and musings on free will creates a uniquely whimsical narrative. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: SABU

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