Interior
2009 · 38m · Japan
Directed by Ramen Factory
Genres: drama, experimental
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, surreal
A young couple relocates to Tokyo with diverging dreams — he chases a filmmaking life while she quietly drifts into emotional and physical absence — until a stray encounter pulls the floor out from under them. A languid, surreal fable about the loneliness inside a shared apartment in a city that never looks back.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Thirty-seven minutes of two people slowly not being in the same relationship anymore, in Tokyo, with better cinematography than most features. The director hides behind the name Ramen Factory and refuses to be easily found — which is, honestly, very on-brand for this kind of film.
At 37 minutes Ramen Factory is past the short-film line and committed to Tokyo's own pacing — overwhelming, indifferent, secretly full of feeling. Lost in Translation by way of Wong, less polish but more breath.
At 37:35 this is really a medium-length film about a young couple drifting in Tokyo — surreal fable mode, languid Lost-in-Translation register. Hard to be sure of the actual craft level from a synopsis, but the pacing commits.