Number 10 Blues / Goodbye Saigon
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- Number 10 blues Saraba Saigon
ナンバーテンブルース さらばサイゴン - Japan/Vietnam 2012, Blu-ray, 97 min, Japanese / English / Vietnamese with English subtitles
- 監督、脚本：長田紀生
- Production: Presario Corp.
- Camera: Akira SHIIZUKA
- Music: Toshiaki TSUHIMA
- World Sales: Omgact Entertainment
- Actors: Yusuke KAWAZU, Tanh Lan, Kenji ISOMURA, Eiichi KIKUCHI
Sugimoto, a Japanese business man working in Vietnam, accidently killed a Vietnamese. Together with his lover Lanh and Taro, who is the son of a Japanese ex-soldier and a vietnamese woman, he flees towards the north to escape to Japan. This idiosyncratic road movie is a real action film, not an anti-war film. It questions not just one’s surreal existence during war time, but also national identity and nationality.
Director biography
Norio OSADA, born in 1942, graduated from Waseda University, started a career as a script writer at Toei Film Company and worked as a script writer with Kinji FUKASAKU in the 1970s and 80s (e.g. UNDER THE FLAG OF THE RISING SUN, 1972). His debut film NUMBER 10 BLUES / GOODBYE SAIGON was shot during the last days of the Vietnam war from December 1974 until April 1975 in Vietnam under difficult circumstances.