Blu-ray release: ‘The Box Man’

By   |  Apr 18, 2025

Third Window Films are bringing the 2024 Japanese drama ‘The Box Man’ (箱男) to UK Blu-ray on June 30, 2025.

Based on the novel ‘Hako Otoko’ by Kobo Abe and directed by Gakuryu Ishii, the film revolves around a nameless man who gives up his identity to live with a large cardboard box over his head. The cast includes Masatoshi Nagase, Tadanobu Asano, Koichi Sato, Ayana Shiramoto, Kiyohiko Shibukawa, and Yuko Nakamura.

Synopsis: A man with a cardboard box over his head wanders the streets of Tokyo. Peering at the world through a peephole, he incessantly writes down in a notebook what he can see. The photographer Myself spots the man and is fascinated. He decides to do the same thing and become a box man himself. But his path to get there is not easy; countless challenges and dangers lie in wait. They include a fake doctor who wants to rob him of his box-man identity; a military man who seeks to use him for the perfect crime; and a mysterious woman who does everything she can to seduce him. Can Myself achieve his dream of becoming a box man?

Features:
• Feature length audio commentary by Tom Mes
• Cast and Crew talk event
• Cast comments from inside the Box
• Director Q&A at the Japan Society
• Trailers
• Special “Box” Slipcase Edition [2000 copies only]
• Region: B

‘The Box Man’ is available to pre-order now from Amazon.co.uk and Terracottadistribution.com.

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