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The Amazing Lives of Fast Food Grifters. Self-proclaimed dine-and-dash masters, the Fast Food Grifters, rise and fall with Japanese dietary trends since the 1940s.
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- Mako Hyôdô
- Mamoru Oshii
- Comedy
Tachiguishi-Retsuden (立喰師列伝, lit. Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters) is a 2006 Japanese animated comedy film directed by Japanese filmmaker Mamoru Oshii, who also wrote the eponymous novel on which the film was based. Both works are part of the Kerberos Saga.
Apr 8, 2006 · Fast Food Grifters is an ostensibly comedic mockumentary about Japan's most legendary ... The film loosely covers Japanese history from 1945 to 2006 and shows the greatest restaurant moochers of each decade along with their outlandish techniques.
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Dec 22, 2017 · In the 1950s, as the recovering country was experiencing a “post war economic miracle”, a new hero (ine) emerges among the grifter mythology in Foxy Croquette O-Gin, an attractive, liberated, modern women who uses her sensuality and cunning intelligence to equally charm and outwit her gullible (and decidedly male) victims.
Thrown into the mix is a new breed of consumer: the fast-food grifters of the title, people who don't like to pay for their tucker and are constantly fine-tuning their elaborate scams to score free munchies.
An offbeat look at the art of freeloading in post-war Japan, edging into an aggrieved social critique of American fast food culture. A hypnotic uncoiling of photo animation and live-action, the deadpan narration is far too dense to fully absorb, with it's cryptic humor shaded with bitterness.
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The philosophical significance of the strategies of a series of mythical Japanese grifters, from the immediate postwar period up to the 1980s.
