OGATAを捜す92

The film is a documentarystyle drama about the search for OGATA a friend from the film club at university who disappeared before graduation and is now missing Carrying a video camera the protagonist visits his old friends to find out what happened to OGATA It seems as if his purpose is to go around declaring that he is looking for OGATA who everyone wants to see His friends are disgusted and tell him to grow up Eventually the protagonist finds out that OGATA is in Kyushu and goes to see him with his camera Seeing him for the first time in a long time OGATA begins to talk about the reasons for his disappearance and his current life This is a story of selfdiscovery through the act of searching for a friend The film is as close to a documentary as possible but it skillfully approaches the psychological structure of the protagonist a moratorium man