Iwai enjoyed another kind of success with this film as well, having teamed up with Takeshi Kobayashi to create the music for the film and the Yen Town Band, headed by Pop star Chara.
Iwai has created a world completely of his own in his career and a film director, video artist, and writer and he looks to continue his innovative style into the future, whatever the medium may be.
Iwai deploys the alternating contemplative/abrupt sound-bridges and drifting cameras of a melancholy songs music video, and with great facility, but his greater formal triumph is the expression of collective musical experience through unmusical means.
Iwai doesnt shy from even worse abuse, such as a terrifying ambush and assault in an empty factory and constant references to whole underground economies of flesh and shame.
Punning on the visual cliché of the guilt-ridden suicide, Iwai shows him standing on a chair in a room, cropping his head in a way that suggests a hanging, but his agonies instead are the ones that will leak like waste dumps for years.
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