Nobuhiro Yamashita has never been one to do the obvious, which in his case would have meant churning out more charmingly offbeat teen comedies like his 2005 breakout "Linda Linda Linda." Instead Yamashita stretched himself with films like "Matsugane Ransha Jiken (The Matsugane Potshot Affair)" from 2006, which mixed brutal violence with wacky gags, and "My Back Pages" (2011), a nearly humor-free drama about reporters covering student radicals in the 1960s and '70s.