Winner of the Grand Prize in the short film section at the 1987 Torino Film Festival in Italy, Yosuke Fujita may have been making films for more than two decades, but it's only now that audiences have the chance to see the director's first full-length feature. "Zenzen Daijobu (Fine, Totally Fine)" is a comic gem of high, flaky brilliance — albeit one that is rather low-key.
In the intervening years, the Hyogo Prefecture native has filmed stage performances for the Otona Keikaku comic-theater troupe and worked on outside film projects with troupe leaders Kankuro Kudo and Masuo Suzuki.
He's also done many a day job, including a long stint as a hospital janitor, and utilized his experiences when writing the award-winning script for "Zenzen Daijobu," which centers on the comic rivalry of two close-but- constantly-bickering brothers (played by Yoshiyoshi Arakawa and Yoshinori Okada) for the same misfit, but artistic, girl (Yoshino Kimura).