Pompo The Cinephile Oscar. Inspired by Shougo Sugitanis ongoing Japanese manga series of the same name Pompo. Pompos written an Oscar-bait blockbuster drama titled Meister about a fierce musician who learns to love music and life again.
The film revolves around Gene an assistant who works for the famous film producer Joelle Davidovich Pomponette aka Pompo-san. Pompo Pomponette a prolific producer of trashy B-movies and sexy flicks operating out of Nyallywood the worlds film capital. This is a movie that loves everything about movies from cheesy monsters to Oscar-winning performances from.
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Directed by Takayuki Hirao. To start with why is it called Pompo. This is a movie that loves everything about movies from cheesy monsters to Oscar-winning performances from. Its montages and juxtapositions and visual flourishes are always ebullient and grand especially the sequences in which Gene edits slicing through giant strips of film.