
Looking for the idea of the tale
2000, Japanese. Directed by Shirōyasu Suzuki.
A woman is talking on her cell phone. A man's hand reaches out to her and tells her to snap the phone. The woman says, "Shut up and hit the man. The woman hits the man, saying, "You're always talking on the phone like that, living off the support of others. I'm on my own. The way you live is the problem. The man says. In fact, the man tries to have an affair and gets dumped. I thought the story would go like this, but it didn't go at all. This film was made based on a film shot in a seminar for fourth-year students at Tama Art University. The actors were students who participated in the seminar. They wanted to make a film about a story, so I asked each student to tell a story, which I transcribed, made into a scenario, and filmed them acting and talking. Rather than creating a "story," the work was composed of everyday scenes, with the idea of a "story" in mind. I have just begun to think about stories that make time. (Suzuki Shiroyasu).
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- 0h 19m
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- Japanese
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- Released
- 1 January 2000
- Original title
- 物語以前
- Country
- Japan
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Looking for the idea of the tale isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 2000. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
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Who directed Looking for the idea of the tale?
Looking for the idea of the tale (2000) was directed by Shirōyasu Suzuki and stars Midori Umeki, Akiko Kawazoe, Yuki Chiba.