Hey cinemaniacs, it's BeRightBack again, visiting from the Wordsmoker collective to bring you another "eye-opening" ["mezamashii"] moment from Japanese cinema. This week, I'm talking about the ridiculous, hilarious, picaresque and deceptively sophisticated Yaji and Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims, by Kankuro Kudo (Netflix it!). Yaji and Kita are a twosome. They are also lovers, but their inseparability seems more essential to what they are than their sex lives. They are not two individuals who found one another. They exist together or not at all. Yaji and Kita are a twosome who travel. They were first invented as the bumbling heroes of a late 1700s travelogue meant to advertise inns and other businesses lining a road called the Tôkaidô, which connected the new capital Tokyo (then known as Edo) in the east and the old capital Kyoto in the west. Their adventures in these product-placed locales became so popular that they outlived the businesses they were meant to publicize, stars of one of the earliest and most popular buddy comedies in the world. Yaji and Kita travel through space but also through time. They popped up again in the 1990s as the heroes of a comic strip (or manga) by Kotobuki Shiriagari that turned them into lovers, existential heroes and drug addicts; unhitched from the real Tôkaidô, they visit inns named after "Laughter" and "Singing" and even into the underworld. They travelled now through the realms of hallucination and dream; they'd become "midnight pilgrims." To view the source of the article.

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