FUKUCHAN OF FUKUFUKU FLATS (2014)
Writer and director Yosuke Fujita’s Fukuchan of Fukufuku Flats is ostensibly just a rom-com about lonely outcasts. An offbeat and quirky drama in which characters try (some more successfully than others) to navigate their mundane lives or move from various states of arrested development. But under the typical trappings of the genre (including toilet humour and random moments of slapstick) is a darker story about bullies and abusers that has a something to say beyond the plot about finding love and friendship
