Daisuke Tengan may not be a name that you're familiar with, but I'm sure you've heard of films like Takashi Miike's "Audition", "Imprint", and Kaizo Hayashi's Maiku Hama Trilogy. Well, Dengan wrote the screenplays for all of those films, plus he co-wrote "The Eel", "Dr. Akagi" and "Warm Water Under a Red Bridge" with his father Shohei Imamura. Now you're starting to see the unique place that Dengan holds in the history of contemporary Japanese cinema.
Tengan is is now getting set to release his 5th directorial effort and it looks quite impressive indeed. "The Most Beautiful Night in The World" tells the story of a reporter, played by Tomorowo Taguchi, who is sent to a small town with the highest birth rate in Japan. There he encounters a former radical, played by one of my favorite actors working today, Ryo ishibashi, who is trying to ignite a sexual revolution. With Japan facing a social and economic crisis in the next few decades due to it having the lowest birth rate of any developed nation Tengan's film is certainly timely. It looks like it will stir up controversy as well as it apparently features an orgy involving 50 people. I guess by sheer numbers the odds of someone getting pregnant with that kind of action is pretty high, no?
If the trailer is any indicator Tengan is carrying on the family tradition of the skewed, idiosyncratic and socially insightful films of his father. It's also another example of the effective use of Puccini's "Nessun Dorma" being used to full cinematic effect...
You can check out the trailer for "The Most Beautiful Night in The World" at the official site here: http://www.beautiful-night.net/
You can also read more about the film at Kaiju Shakedwon who broke this story: http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/kaijushakedown/JAPANESE-PREGNANCY-MOVIE
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