PEROPERO, the future-rock band from Berlin, is touring Japan with gigs in liveclubs from Tokyo to other cities. Director Laszlo (60) is the guitarist’s father. He films the tour through Japan with a film crew for creating documentary about the gigs and life of the band. The filmcrew is accompanied by Laszlos wife Emma who is the producer of the film. But the project is mutating into a dramatic love story between Laszlo and the young Japanese assistant producer Nahoko. Nahoko is an authentic and demanding person, with at least a father complex – apart from other psychological problems. She drives Laszlo increasingly into difficulties. The film crew and the musicians experience life how the director more and more loses control over himself and the film project because of the love adventure with Nahoko. Finally, after a boozed night, they not only end up in bed together but oversleep and nearly miss an important appointment. Emma, the producer shows her partner the red card. Consequently, the director breaks up with Nahoko. And Nahoko disappears in a crying attack with the entire production notes, all dates and all tickets – and the notebook of Emma. Chaos. Anger. Major tension in the group. Now the director needs to find Nahoko at any price and bring her back. But he has an idea where to look and succeeds after an adventurous search.

Nahoko is back but the problem remains. Just before the tour ends, the situation escalates again and now the producer has had it and breaks up with the director. The crew revolts, even his son reproaches him for his behavior whereupon the father breaks down and gets himself blind drunk in a bar. He loses his money and mobile and staggers through the Tokyo night without a clue and orientation. Finally he falls and lays in agony until someone finds him and calls an ambulance. With a suspected heart attack he is being escorted to hospital.

It turns out that he broke two ribs when he fell… Embarrassed and devastated he leaves the hospital in a desperate search for his wife. He wants to fight for her. His son finally reminds him that his last film is being shown in the Goethe Institute the same night and that he is expected to be there. But he wants to catch Emma on airport before she flies back to Germany – and he arrives the airport to late. She is already away…

He arrives at the Goethe Institute and during the q & a in front of the audience he declares his love for his wife and producer – without her his life and his work is not worth anything. And suddenly she leans on the wall watching him. They look at each other and LASZLO with tears in his eyes thanks god that everything would be fine now… But he is taken from the past: Nahoko takes revenge on him.

Zoltan Paul

Tomoko Inoue

Clementina Hegewisch

Julian Adam Pajzs

Valentin Schuster

Shinji Matsushita

Takuma Nagao

Shoichiro Suzuki

Takuya Takemoto

Yuya Kameyama

Hirohito Kumon

Yuta Aoki

Shinyu Watanabe

Jan Kerhart

Alexander Wendler

Samuel Schmidt

Michael Schmidt

Produced by

Nextfilm Filmproduktion

Coproduced by

Achtfeld

Producer

Zoltan Paul, Clementina Hegewisch

Executive producer

Diana Matous, Fabian Spuck

Director of Photography/
Co-Director

Fabian Spuck

Director of Photography/
Co-Director 

Jan Kerhart 

1st Assistant DOP

Facundo Altube

2nd Assistant DOP

Alexander Wendler

Music by

Julian Adam Pajzs

PEROPERO

Julian Adam Pajzs, guitar, vocals, synthesizer
Valentin Schuster, drums

Sound engineer

Samuel Schmidt

Sound assistant

Michael Schmidt

Location Manager/Line Producer

Hitomi Enin

Translations/Assistant Line Producer

Tomoko Inoue

Color grading

Günter Berghaus

Sound Editor/Designer/Mixer  

Michael Schmidt 

Music Scoring Mixer

Julian Adam Pajzs

Editor/Co-Director

Ben von Grafenstein

Editor

Mirja Gerle
Diana Matous

Editor Consulting

Christian Virmond

Subtitles

Alias Sprachtransfer, Dagmar Jacobsen

Costume supervisor

Daniela Seelig

Script chief supervisor

Nina Grosse

Screenplay by

Zoltan Paul

Directed by

Zoltan Paul