{"rewrite":{"id":"r_74827601a0b2ecce2a879ec5","clusterId":"c_bfb6247b28ee946bf924dbaf","slug":"sabu-s-memory-zero-reaches-tokyo-festival-after-a-20-year-development","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"SABU's Memory Zero Reaches Tokyo Festival After a 20-Year Development","summary":"Shinichi Tsutsumi joined director SABU, Reika Kirishima and Akira Huang at a stage greeting at Marunouchi Piccadilly on Oct. 27 for Memory Zero, which screens in the Gala Selection of the 39th Tokyo International Film Festival and opens in early summer 2027. The Japan-Taiwan co-production, shot entirely in Taiwan, is SABU's 20th feature. Tsutsumi plays a Japanese businessman whose son is kidnapped in a 300-million-yen case.","whyItMatters":"A project SABU first planned to shoot in Germany, which later fell through in Seoul and New York, arrives at a Tokyo festival gala as his 20th feature, with Taiwan as the location that finally held.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eMemory Zero brings SABU back together with Shinichi Tsutsumi, who appeared in Dangan Runner in 1996, Postman Blues in 1997 and DRIVE in 2002. Tsutsumi said his part is small and that he was glad to take part anyway. SABU told the Marunouchi Piccadilly audience that the project started as a plan to shoot in Germany, stalled, and later fell through in Seoul and New York before Taiwan worked. Tsutsumi\u0026#39;s shoot ran four or five days, his first time filming outside Japan. He called the Taiwanese crew friendly and the set constructive.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Memory Zero is SABU's 20th feature and a Japan-Taiwan co-production shot entirely in Taiwan, with Shinichi Tsutsumi as a businessman whose son is kidnapped. The 300-million-yen case is the plot's engine, not the setting.","twitterPost":"Memory Zero is SABU's 20th feature, shot entirely in Taiwan. Shinichi Tsutsumi plays a businessman in a 300-million-yen kidnapping case.","threadsPost":"Memory Zero is SABU's 20th feature, and it is a Japan-Taiwan co-production shot entirely in Taiwan. Shinichi Tsutsumi plays a Japanese businessman whose son is kidnapped in a 300-million-yen case. The Taiwan shoot is the production fact; the kidnapping is the story the film sells.","newsletterBlurb":"Shinichi Tsutsumi, director SABU, Reika Kirishima and Akira Huang appeared at Marunouchi Piccadilly on Oct. 27 for Memory Zero, a Gala Selection title at the 39th Tokyo International Film Festival. The Japan-Taiwan co-production is SABU's 20th feature and was shot entirely on location in Taiwan. 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