I Alone

A common horoscope brings a timid middleaged salaryman and high school delinquent to the center of a political scandal in which a corrupt incumbent mayor seeks to crush the candidacy of his reformer opponent This antiestablishment tale blends a punk ethos with absurdist comedy as the unlikely pair finds their existence given new meaning when they work to return a kidnapped baby Along the way they must fight not only the assault of the mayors neoliberal redevelopment of the town but his bribed police force and yakuza Under director Sho Tsukikawas taut direction I Alones mad roller coaster ride plot and outraged selfdetermination all ring emotionally true making this one of the years biggest discoveries