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SABU's Memory Zero Reaches Tokyo Festival After a 20-Year Development
Shinichi Tsutsumi joined director SABU, Reika Kirishima and Akira Huang at a stage greeting at Marunouchi Piccadilly on Oct.
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Why it matters
A project SABU first planned to shoot in Germany, which later fell through in Seoul and New York, arrives at a Tokyo festival gala as his 20th feature, with Taiwan as the location that finally held.
Key Facts
- Memory Zero screens in the Gala Selection of the 39th Tokyo International Film Festival and opens in early summer 2027.
- SABU directed the film as his 20th feature, a Japan-Taiwan co-production shot entirely on location in Taiwan.
- Shinichi Tsutsumi plays a Japanese businessman whose son is kidnapped in a 300-million-yen case.
- Tsutsumi previously appeared in SABU's Dangan Runner (1996), Postman Blues (1997) and DRIVE (2002).
- SABU said the project was first planned for Germany and later fell through in Seoul and New York before Taiwan.
27 for Memory Zero, which screens in the Gala Selection of the 39th Tokyo International Film Festival and opens in early summer 2027. The Japan-Taiwan co-production, shot entirely in Taiwan, is SABU's 20th feature. Tsutsumi plays a Japanese businessman whose son is kidnapped in a 300-million-yen case.
Memory Zero brings SABU back together with Shinichi Tsutsumi, who appeared in Dangan Runner in 1996, Postman Blues in 1997 and DRIVE in 2002. Tsutsumi said his part is small and that he was glad to take part anyway. SABU told the Marunouchi Piccadilly audience that the project started as a plan to shoot in Germany, stalled, and later fell through in Seoul and New York before Taiwan worked. Tsutsumi's shoot ran four or five days, his first time filming outside Japan. He called the Taiwanese crew friendly and the set constructive.
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- Cinema Today 堤真一、初の映画海外ロケも「演出はほぼ擬音」 SABU監督と久々タッグ