The film, shot in a jazzy, free-wheeling style and featuring Doyle's signature hyper-kinetic, oversaturated photography and eccentric humor, focuses on a trip that Asano's character takes to Hong Kong and his encounters with off-beat personalities populating the metropolitan landscape (among them, a beer-drinking amnesiacgay bar owner portrayed by Kevin Sherlock). Another narrative thread relies on flashbacks into Asano's character's childhood in Okinawa. The protagonist suffers from overbearing excesses of his memory, mnemonic associations and synesthesia. The emerging human attachments provide an emotional center and a source of serenity to offset the rampage of the protagonist's mind and tame the lavish disarray of urban imagery.
The film credits Borges (presumably Funes the Memorious) and Luria for inspiration. Many aspects of Asano's character (memory excess, profound synesthesia, arranging memories visually along roads, wordplay, struggling with an onslaught of associations, comments about restaurant music and its effect on food taste, the waking-for-school scene) are directly borrowed from Luria's real life case study of Solomon Shereshevskii, The Mind of a Mnemonist.
away, with, words, known, also, chinese, title, 三條人, roughly, translated, three, life, stories, japanese, title, 孔雀, translated, peacock, 1999, auteur, trilingual, japanese, english, cantonese, film, christopher, doyle, scripted, doyle, tony, rayns, starring, . Away with Words known also by its Chinese title 三條人 roughly translated as Three Life stories and its Japanese title 孔雀 translated as Peacock is a 1999 auteur trilingual Japanese English Cantonese film by Christopher Doyle co scripted by Doyle and Tony Rayns and starring Tadanobu Asano Kevin Sherlock and Mavis Xu Away With WordsDVD cover of film from its release in India Directed byChristopher DoyleWritten byChristopher DoyleTony RaynsProduced byHiro TokimoriNoburu UoyaStarringTadanobu AsanoKevin SherlockMavis XuCinematographyChristopher DoyleEdited byAnne GoursaudRelease date7 August 1999Running time90 minutesCountriesHong KongJapanLanguagesCantoneseEnglishJapaneseThe film shot in a jazzy free wheeling style and featuring Doyle s signature hyper kinetic oversaturated photography and eccentric humor focuses on a trip that Asano s character takes to Hong Kong and his encounters with off beat personalities populating the metropolitan landscape among them a beer drinking amnesiac gay bar owner portrayed by Kevin Sherlock Another narrative thread relies on flashbacks into Asano s character s childhood in Okinawa The protagonist suffers from overbearing excesses of his memory mnemonic associations and synesthesia The emerging human attachments provide an emotional center and a source of serenity to offset the rampage of the protagonist s mind and tame the lavish disarray of urban imagery The film credits Borges presumably Funes the Memorious and Luria for inspiration Many aspects of Asano s character memory excess profound synesthesia arranging memories visually along roads wordplay struggling with an onslaught of associations comments about restaurant music and its effect on food taste the waking for school scene are directly borrowed from Luria s real life case study of Solomon Shereshevskii The Mind of a Mnemonist The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival 1 Cast editTadanobu Asano Asano Takashi Kevin Sherlock Kevin Mavis Xu Susie Takanori Kubo Asano Takashi Boy Christa Hughes Christa Georgina Dobson GeorginaReferences edit Festival de Cannes Away with Words festival cannes com Archived from the original on 7 October 2012 Retrieved 2009 10 09 External links editAway with Words at IMDb nbsp nbsp This article related to a Hong Kong film of the 1990s is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte nbsp This article related to a Japanese film of the 1990s is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Away with Words amp oldid 1190728521, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
