{"id":2639,"date":"2024-02-04T17:00:07","date_gmt":"2024-02-04T08:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oaff.jp\/?p=2639"},"modified":"2024-02-11T17:22:14","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T08:22:14","slug":"2024-h03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oaff.jp\/en\/programs\/2024-h03\/","title":{"rendered":"Half Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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OAFF2024 Housen Cultural Foundation-supported program Grant for Film Study and Production<\/p>\n\n\n

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Half Time<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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The precarious position of technical interns in Japan is examined in Half Time<\/em>, ZHANG Yaoyuan\u2019s unsentimental follow-up film to his behind-the-show-biz-scenes documentary On Stage<\/em> (2021, OAFF2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Half Time<\/em>, ZHANG applies a realist aesthetic to focus on the hardship of a Chinese technical intern named Qingyang. His fortunes had already been trending downwards before he reached Japan. Now, at 39 and with a kid to support in China, debts to pay off, a lack of Japanese language proficiency, and despicable brokers guiding him, he labours under a lot of stress and yet tries his best to secure a job, any job, in a series of humiliating interviews orchestrated by people keen to exploit him. Desperation, degradation, and discrimination build up as a final interview approaches and his patience runs out\u2026 [Jason MAHER]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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