Way back in 2007 Colin introduced us to Hitoshi Matsumoto: the mad genius challenging Takeshi Kitano as reigning king of Japanese comedy. I've said many times that the Asian film fanbase at Midnight Madness is the most loyal of the various fanbases that make up our community and Matsumoto did not disappoint with his rookie offering Dainipponjin.

Matsumoto returns to Midnight Madness this year with Symbol. Here is the trailer 

Now if this was day 1 or 2 of TIFF I'd having something witty to say about the trailer. But it is day 6, have a look at what us bloggers look like right now:  

 Thanks to TIFF Print Traffic Guru Steve Landry for the pic. You're probably thinking "Well, at least Sachin doesn't look so bad..." (2^nd from the left) But that isn't Sachin... It's Sheleigh!!! Just kidding, Sheleigh looks great she's just smart enough to not get her picture taken this late in the fest.

What am I blogging about right now. Oh yeah, Symbol. It screens tonight so come check it out.

Symbol screens on Thursday September 17, 11:59 pm at the Ryerson and Saturday September 19, 12:00 pm at the Cumberland 1.