BLUE GIANT
"一度とないこの瞬間を 全力で鳴らせ"
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ジャズに魅了され、テナーサックスを始めた仙台の高校生・宮本大（ミヤモトダイ）。 雨の日も風の日も、毎日たったひとりで何年も、河原でテナーサックスを吹き続けてきた。 卒業を機にジャズのため、上京。高校の同級生・玉田俊二（タマダシュンジ）のアパートに転がり込んだ大は、ある日訪れたライブハウスで同世代の凄腕ピアニスト・沢辺雪祈（サワベユキノリ）と出会う。 大は雪祈をバンドに誘う。はじめは本気で取り合わない雪祈だったが、聴く者を圧倒する大のサックスに胸を打たれ、二人はバンドを組むことに。そこへ大の熱さに感化されドラムを始めた玉田が加わり、三人は“JASS”を結成する。 楽譜も読めず、ジャズの知識もなかったが、ひたすらに、全力で吹いてきた大。幼い頃からジャズに全てを捧げてきた雪祈。初心者の玉田。 トリオの目標は、日本最高のジャズクラブ「So Blue」に出演し、日本のジャズシーンを変えること。 無謀と思われる目標に、必死に挑みながら成長していく “JASS”は、次第に注目を集めるようになる。「So Blue」でのライブ出演にも可能性が見え始め、目まぐるしい躍進がこのまま続いていくかに思えたが、ある思いもよらない出来事が起こり……
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I very nearly didn't make the 30-mile schlep to my local Cineworld to watch this film but I'm really glad I did. It's not about a whale, no. It's about the aspirational saxophonist "Dai" who heads to Tokyo with dreams of taking over the world. He arrives, unannounced, on the doorstep of his friend "Tamada" looking for a bed for a few days. Needless to say, that few days turns out to be a bit longer and their friendship starts to strain a bit (the visitor snores!). "Dai" visits a small bar and meets the jazz-loving owner "Akiko" who sends him to a live venue where he encounters the pianist "Sawabe" whom he tries to convince to form a band. They are both eighteen but the latter man has been playing for about fourteen years longer than his new friend, so is a little sceptical! That doesn't last long once he hears him play and they soon decide they need a drummer to keep both from straying into the uncontrollable territory that can be improv jazz! Well, it turns out that his "landlord" isn't half bad at beating time with a stick on a Coke can - but can he up his game and turn this duo into a trio good enough to play at the city's most prestigious club - "So Blue"? The story itself is a bit predicable, with a few temper tantrums, frustrations and fallings out but it does illustrate well just how athletic these musicians must be to perform. Hands are covered in calluses and bruises, the sax takes quite a toll on the breathing and at times it's touch and go as to whether they can make it out of the starting block. There's nothing easy about the task they have set themselves nor the dedication and sacrifices it will take to achieve (or not) their goal. The animation itself it a little hit and miss, the CGI works much less well that the hand drawn scenes, but what really works here is the synchronisation with the musicians and that can be really immersive at times. If you are a fan of this genre of music, then you are in for a treat of Coltrane, Stitt et al. The saxophone (Tomoaki Baba), piano (Hiromi Uehara) and drums (Shun Ishiwaka) are unafraid to start off timidly and (especially the drummer) very rough around the edges, but as the story develops and they improve and become more confident, so do their performances until a tragedy tinged denouement that really does get the toes tapping. I'd have to say - there is no point in watching this is if this style of rambling, meandering and frankly rather musically self-indulgent performance doesn't appeal to you, but the powerful mix of frenetically syncopated animation and music I found really quite compelling. Sure, it's a bit long - but it's well worth a watch.
