Japanese film, "Maruyama, The Middle Schooler"
Posted: Wed May 24, 2017 7:26 pm
Chûgakusei Maruyama is original title of this film.
This film is about a teenage boy obsessed with performing autofellatio.
http://fantasticfest.com/films/maruyama ... e-schooler
BRIEF SUMMARY
A middle school student prone to wild daydreams devotes his waking hours to stretching and flexibility exercises with the ultimate goal of one day being able to lick his own penis.
FULL DESCRIPTION
Every boy needs a goal, an organizing principle to provide structure and focus to their life. And Katsuya Maruyama has one. Oh, yes, this middle school student has a doozy of a goal. Though prone to daydreams and flights of extreme fancy, Maruyama is focused on one overriding desire he is determined to attain. When he wakes, he stretches. Before sleeping, he stretches. At every available opportunity in between... more stretches. Why? Because Maruyama is determined that one day he will be flexible enough to lick his own penis.
And things are going well for Maruyama—though he should perhaps consider that the cracking and popping sound that precedes his more vividly fantastic visions may indicate that he’s doing serious damage to his spine. But one day a strange new neighbor moves into the apartment complex, a single father who appears to know all about Maruyama’s secret goal and may threaten the youth with exposure. Also, there’s the dead body that turns up nearby.
From the fertile imagination of writer-director Kankuro Kudo—writer of Takashi Miike’s ZEBRAMAN among many others—comes MARUYAMA THE MIDDLE SCHOOLER, a film that not only pokes deliriously accurate fun at the psyche of the adolescent male, but actually grows beyond its already hysterical premise to deliver a gloriously demented, multi-layered portrait of Maruyama’s entire apartment complex. Because you know what they say about kids learning from their environment … if Maruyama is this odd surely there must be more strangeness to be found nearby. Deeply funny, constantly surprising, and unexpectedly heartfelt, MARUYAMA THE MIDDLE SCHOOLER is arguably the crowning moment to date in what has already been a sterling career from Kudo.
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I'm trying to find a way to watch it, either downloading/streaming it or buying a disc. Amazon has the DVD but it is Region 2 and wouldn't play here, but there is also a Blu-Ray but I don't know if it has the same issue. Doing a search says it's available on YouTube but it doesn't work and redirects me to some site that doesn't work. I'd like to see this with English subtitles if possible since I don't speak Japanese.
This film is about a teenage boy obsessed with performing autofellatio.
http://fantasticfest.com/films/maruyama ... e-schooler
BRIEF SUMMARY
A middle school student prone to wild daydreams devotes his waking hours to stretching and flexibility exercises with the ultimate goal of one day being able to lick his own penis.
FULL DESCRIPTION
Every boy needs a goal, an organizing principle to provide structure and focus to their life. And Katsuya Maruyama has one. Oh, yes, this middle school student has a doozy of a goal. Though prone to daydreams and flights of extreme fancy, Maruyama is focused on one overriding desire he is determined to attain. When he wakes, he stretches. Before sleeping, he stretches. At every available opportunity in between... more stretches. Why? Because Maruyama is determined that one day he will be flexible enough to lick his own penis.
And things are going well for Maruyama—though he should perhaps consider that the cracking and popping sound that precedes his more vividly fantastic visions may indicate that he’s doing serious damage to his spine. But one day a strange new neighbor moves into the apartment complex, a single father who appears to know all about Maruyama’s secret goal and may threaten the youth with exposure. Also, there’s the dead body that turns up nearby.
From the fertile imagination of writer-director Kankuro Kudo—writer of Takashi Miike’s ZEBRAMAN among many others—comes MARUYAMA THE MIDDLE SCHOOLER, a film that not only pokes deliriously accurate fun at the psyche of the adolescent male, but actually grows beyond its already hysterical premise to deliver a gloriously demented, multi-layered portrait of Maruyama’s entire apartment complex. Because you know what they say about kids learning from their environment … if Maruyama is this odd surely there must be more strangeness to be found nearby. Deeply funny, constantly surprising, and unexpectedly heartfelt, MARUYAMA THE MIDDLE SCHOOLER is arguably the crowning moment to date in what has already been a sterling career from Kudo.
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I'm trying to find a way to watch it, either downloading/streaming it or buying a disc. Amazon has the DVD but it is Region 2 and wouldn't play here, but there is also a Blu-Ray but I don't know if it has the same issue. Doing a search says it's available on YouTube but it doesn't work and redirects me to some site that doesn't work. I'd like to see this with English subtitles if possible since I don't speak Japanese.
