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TSUNAMI is a feature length road movie about the Japanese surfing subculture
in Australia. The film is inspired by the young Japanese that come to
Australia on working holiday visas, in search of sun, surf and salvation.
The Shark is a young Japanese surfer, who lives and works as a chef in Bondi,
amongst the bohemian Japanese surfing community. Yuto, the Shark's dare devil,
hyperactive mate, arrives in Sydney from Tokyo and Shark picks him up from the
airport in his vintage EK Holden station wagon, and the two friends embark on
a whitemans walkabout- a surfing safari up the east coast of Australia, to
Surfers Paradise. The boys surf some of Australia's most spectacular surfing
spots, camping and staying in caravan parks. Shark is the cool, calm
collected, chain smoking, resourceful one and Yuto is reckless and full of
energy.
 Sharks
tarty ex-girlfriend Kimiko catches up with Yuto and Shark at a service
station, Yuto thinks she is very attractive and Kimiko uses Yuto to make Shark
jealous. The three adventures miander up the spectacular north coast of New
South Wales, becoming consumed in the bohemian surfing lifestyle and the
Australian landscape.
But beyond all the beer and chiko rolls, lurks the Gunga man. A hippy style,
Japanese hitch hiker with dreadlocks, who has a deep spiritual affinity with
the land and the surf. Gunga man has a psychedelic effect on Kimiko, Yuto and
the Shark- along the highway, Yuto, Shark, and Kimiko believe that they are
having hallucinations, as they pass several of Australia's giant surreal
tourist attractions such as the Big Merino and the Big Pineapple. The three
characters realise the Paradise and Hell of living in OZ experiencing space
madness as they become lost on the sun burnt island.
Kimiko, Yuto and the Shark experience the `emptiness' of the Australian desert
as they roam the outback looking for a beach. The experience of nothingness in
the vast ancient desert landscape, combined with the heat and hallucinations,
push them all into an altered state as they come to terms with their identity.
Kimiko, Yuto and the Shark eventually make it to the Gold Coast, where Shark
tells Kimiko to leave. Hypnotised by the landscape, Yuto is lured into some
dangerous waves. In the great Australian tradition of Harold Holt and Picnic
at Hanging Rock, Yuto vanishes into the sea, with Surfers Paradise on the
horizon.
More details and online trailer go to
www.bonditsunami.com.au
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