MAD TIGER

Foreign Film Series ~ Mad Tiger

Wednesday, August 31, 2016 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm
  • Chief Theater, 813 Lincoln Ave.

The library's free foreign film series continues with a film that Indiewire calls "one of the 10 Must-See documentaries," a collaboration from Japan and the United States, directed by Jonathan Yi and Michael Haertlein, screening at the Chief Theater.

Mad Tiger follows bandmates Yellow (Kengo Hioki) and Red (Kotaro Tsukada), who have been best friends and business partners for fifteen years as the primary creative forces behind Peelander-Z. Based in New York City and described as a "Japanese Action Comic Punk Band," Peelander-Z combines performance-art and audience participation in their shows, which push the boundaries of madcap acrobatic stage antics. As part of the band, each member must adopt a different, anime-like "Crayola rock" persona and fully embrace this assigned identity in every aspect of life. Seeking his own personal fulfillment, Red announces that he will do one final tour with Peelander-Z before quitting the band. In stark contrast to his character's super-positive facade, Yellow tries his best to keep it together, while dealing with emotions of shock, betrayal and abandonment. Channeling universal stories of friendship and pursuit of happiness, Mad Tiger builds to an unexpectedly moving crescendo, appropriately befitting of Peelander-Z's cacophonous melody-making.

In English.
Run time:  82 min.
The free screening includes an award-wining short & a cash bar.