Fake

  • 111'
  • Japan
  • 2016

Deaf composer Samuragochi Mamoru was known for years in Japan as 'today’s Beethoven'. That changed in 2014 when a music teacher called Niigaki Takashi turned up, alleging he had written almost all of Samuragochi’s compositions. He had served for no less than eighteen years as ghost writer for a man who couldn’t even read notes and on top of that wasn’t actually deaf at all. The revelation resulted in a major scandal revolving around Samuragochi, who continues to maintain he was the main composer of all the works and really is hard of hearing.

Samuragochi was not believed, however, after which he locked himself up in his apartment for two years together with his faithful wife. In this claustrophobic setting, he was followed for months in Fake by filmmaker Mori Tatsuya, who is less interested in the truth than in the subtleties lost in the media circus.

  • 111'
  • Japan
  • 2016
Director
Mori Tatsuya
Premiere
European premiere
Country of production
Japan
Year
2016
Festival Edition
IFFR 2017
Length
111'
Medium
DCP
Language
Japanese
Producer
Hashimoto Yoshiko
Production Company
DD Center
Sales
DD Center
Cinematography
Mori Tatsuya, Yamazaki Yutaka
Editor
Suzuo Keita
Website
http://fakemovie.jp/en/
Director
Mori Tatsuya
Premiere
European premiere
Country of production
Japan
Year
2016
Festival Edition
IFFR 2017
Length
111'
Medium
DCP
Language
Japanese
Producer
Hashimoto Yoshiko
Production Company
DD Center
Sales
DD Center
Cinematography
Mori Tatsuya, Yamazaki Yutaka
Editor
Suzuo Keita
Website
http://fakemovie.jp/en/