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Japanese Sandman (The)

Country: USA, Language: English, 12 mins

  • Director: Ed Buhr
  • Writer: William S. Burroughs

CGiii Comment

Burroughs was distinctive...that whiney drawl with hatchet-job words.

This is an impersonation...and, it works, in part...that is, until the director flips from black & white into colour...for reasons best known to himself.

An impersonated Burroughs is an acquired taste...despite the obvious amount of work that went into this...it falls short of a true imagining of a Burroughs  drug-fuelled debacle.


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The(ir) Blurb...

Both wry travelogue and heartbreaking tale of love lost, The Japanese Sandman adapts a letter William S. Burroughs wrote to Allen Ginsberg in 1953. Told in Burroughs' caustically funny voice, cocaine snorting in Panama and post-prom handjobs in 1931 St. Louis dissolve into a meditation on memory and loss.Actor/performance artist John Fleck leads a stand-out cast through Burroughs' recounting of scoring opiates and boys in Panama and, in the letter's P.S., a love affair with farm boy Billy Brandshinkel in the Ozark's of his youth. Imperial Teen's Roddy Bottum provides the lively and compelling score.

Cast & Characters

Ferd Eggan as Jones the Cab Driver;
Eleanor Estes as Officer's Wife;
Amanda Ferguson as Officer's Wife;
John Fleck as William S. Burroughs;
Darcey Leonard as Panamanian Whore;
Raymond Lopez Jr. as Panamanian Civil Servant;
Cristina Nava as Panamanian Whore;
Nick Niven as Billy Bradshinkel;
Amy O'Neill as Mother / Officer's Wife;
Keston Ridley as The Hip Spade;
Leigh Rose as Grandmother;
Sam Slovick as Bill Gains;
Stephen Twardokus as Young William Burroughs