THE MOST TERRIBLE TIME IN MY LIFE
OPENS AT METROGRAPH MARCH 30
METROGRAPH IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE RUN OF THE MOST TERRIBLE TIME IN MY LIFE,
STARTING MarCH 30.
The first entry in Hayashi’s trilogy of films about the misadventures of detective Maiku Hama (his name a nod to Mickey Spillane’s hard-boiled antihero), The Most Terrible Time in My Life finds the indefatigable Yokohama gumshoe—played with deadpan cool by Masatoshi Nagase (Mystery Train)—on the trail of a Taiwanese immigrant’s missing brother… and in the middle of a brutal gang war. Newly restored for the trilogy’s 30th anniversary, The Most Terrible Time in My Life is a stylized mashup of ’40s American noir and early ’60s Nikkatsu crime thrillers with an offbeat sense of humor all its own, shot in that seediest of formats, black-and-white widescreen, with Hama, who keeps his office in a rundown movie palace and drives a Nash Metropolitan with California plates, the apotheosis of the hipster-sleuth.
Accompanying the special engagement of the newly restored Maiku Hama Trilogy, Metrograph presents After the Case, a series of detective films that take us beyond the mystery’s conclusion, running from March 20 to April 26. Titles include The Big Lebowski, Chinatown, Decision to Leave, Inherent Vice, Kiss Me Deadly, The Long Goodbye, and Zodiac.
A Kani Releasing release.