THEY SAY NOTHING STAYS THE SAME ある船頭の話 (Odagiri Joe 2019)

Odagiri, a Goth-style women's idol with many film and TV acting credits and a Japanese Wikipedia entry a mile long, directs a surprisingly contemplative and beautiful arthouse-style film, with cinematography by the great Christopher Doyle, set in the late Meiji era about a lonely, aging (but impressively stoical) river boatman whose world is fading as a bridge is being built nearby. Beautiful and a little long. People come, people go, nothing ever happens. And then it does.