Film editor Linda Hattendorf quite literally stumbled across the subject for her first film: After befriending a homeless, elderly painter living on the streets near her cluttered Lower Manhattan apartment, she took him in rather than leave him to the post 9/11 chaos that enveloped her neighborhood.
Unkempt, hunched beneath layers of shapeless clothes and alternately muttering in heavily accented English and furiously scribbling pictures of cats, Hiroshima in flames, persimmons and desert barracks on scraps of cardboard and paper, 80-year-old Tsutomo "Jimmy" Mirikitani seems every inch the harmlessly crazy street person. Routine and order soon reveal a gruff, ecc...
Released:
2007
Rated:
NR
Length:
72 mins