Single named Japanese writer-director Sabu has long been a favorite around these parts thanks to his clever and highly literate tweakings of genre conventions. Sabu is clearly someone who knows and loves conventional genre film while also being the sort of restless intelligence that just can't resist flipping things on their heads, a tendency that led to his early slow-chase movies and more recent fare such as arthouse undead picture Miss Zombie.Sabu's latest, Chasuke's Journey, is an afterlife tale adapted from his own novel and having just played in competition in Berlin a trio of clips are online.In the afterlife, busy playwrights are writing scenarios for living human beings. What they write controls everyone's destiny. Celestial tea server Chasuke constantly serves them to keep them...
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