短編映画「似ている」

Similarity - a short film -

世界的な賞を受賞しテレビ取材を受けているデザイナー田中は、彼の勤める広告会社に採用面接を受けにきた旧友・有作と偶然再会する。有作が面接で見せた絵画は田中の受賞作品に似ていたことから社内は大混乱。田中は、事態を収拾させるべく有作のアパートに向かうが、そこには思いがけない人物が待ち受けていた。

  Tanaka, the designer behind a picture used in a famous advertising campaign, is being interviewed for a TV program. Yet when his boss discovers that Tanaka’s college friend Yusaku created a similar work, suspicion of plagiarism arises. Tanaka goes over to Yusaku's apartment to set things straight, unaware that an another person is waiting for him.

　広告映像を長年制作してきた私は、創造性と時間が奪われ、本当に作りたい映画が作れない焦りと不満を抱えていました。そこへやってきた新型コロナは、その欲求不満に正面から向き合う時間を与えました。

　この映画制作はいわば不満解消の手段として始まり、同時に人にとって不満とは何か、どんな種類があってどんな感情や行動を呼び起こすか、どう折り合いをつければ良いかについて突き詰める機会になりました。作品では、創造性が奪われることを盗作に見立て、盗作する側とされる側の両者を描くことで、焦点を善悪ではなく根本にある「不満」に絞りました。

　このテーマを共同脚本家と一年がかりで煮詰めた脚本のもと、日ごろ共に映像制作の現場で苦楽を共にする不満と創作意欲に満ちたクリエイターが集結してくれました。さらに幸運にも11人の個性的な俳優との出会いに恵まれ、それぞれの欲求を叶えようと奮闘するキャラクターたちが見事カメラの前に立ち現れたのです。私もこの作品によって不満解消以上のものを得て、次回作への意欲を沸かせています。

   After many years of producing advertising videos, I had become impatient and frustrated, deprived of creativity and time, and unable to make the films I truly wanted to create. It was at that moment when the Covid-19 pandemic came along and gave me the time to face my frustration head on.

  This film production began as a means of eliminating my frustration, so to speak, but it also became an opportunity for me to explore what frustration means to people, what kinds of feelings and actions it evokes, and how to come to terms with it. The film depicts both the plagiarizer and the plagiarized, and focuses not on right and wrong, but on that underlying feeling of “frustration.”

  The script was developed on this theme over the course of a year with a co-writer, and brought together a group of creators full of frustration and creativity who share a common struggle in the field of filmmaking. We were also lucky enough to meet 11 unique actors and actresses, and their characters, each struggling to fulfill his or her own desires, were successfully brought to life in front of the camera. Indeed, the production of this film did far more for me than merely eliminating the frustration had I had felt, and I am eagerly awaiting the next one.

25 min. / 2048 x 1080 (2K) / Stereo / DCP

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