The title hero of this first feature from Japan by Go Riju is a former rock star (Yoshito Nakamura) who’s living in a warehouse on the Tokyo waterfront and basically diddling his life away by shooting a sort of video diary while his admiring friends wait in vain for him to make a comeback. Visually and stylistically inventive, this film about existential alienation depends rather heavily on one finding this hero sufficiently interesting to warrant all the fuss. I didn’t, though I must admit that writer-director Riju does a very good job of handling the milieu. With Masumi Miyazaki (1989). (JR)