Official Trailer for ‘Tokyo Cowboy’ About a Japanese Man in Montana

Official Trailer for ‘Tokyo Cowboy’ About a Japanese Man in Montana

by Alex Billington
June 29, 2024
Source: YouTube

“You really are a long way from home, aren’t ya?” Purdie Distr. has debuted the official US trailer for an indie drama titled Tokyo Cowboy, from filmmaker Marc Marriott making his feature directorial debut. This premiered last year at the 2023 Tallgrass Film Festival, where it won Best Narrative Feature, and it also played at the Boston, Sedona, Newport Beach, and Heartland Film Festivals. A Japanese businessman goes on an unwitting journey of self-discovery when he takes a company trip from Tokyo all the way out to a Montana cattle ranch. When his Hardee’s-burger-loving Japanese Wagyu-beef expert fails him, he is poised to misfire magnificently, unless he can figure out his own issues. “Now unsettled and off the grid in an alien culture, Hideki recalibrates his values and his life goals. Director Marc Marriott and cinematographer Oscar Ignacio Jiménez create a Big Sky setting that could reset any of us in need of self-discovery.” Starring Arata Iura as Hideki, with Ayako Fujitani, Goya Robles, Robin Weigert, & Jun Kunimura. Where did this come from? I want to watch – it looks quite good. Plenty of wholesome humor in this fish-out-of-water story.

Here’s the official trailer (+ poster) for Marc Marriott’s film Tokyo Cowboy, direct from YouTube:

Brash Tokyo businessman Hideki (Arata Iura) arrives in Montana – known as Big Sky Country – having convinced his bosses back in Japan he can turn a profitless US cattle ranch into a premiere-performing beef asset. Yet when his Hardee’s-burger-loving Japanese Wagyu-beef expert fails him, Hideki is suddenly poised to misfire magnificently unless he identifies a missing element that’s key to the transformation… himself. Tokyo Cowboy is directed by American indie producer / filmmaker Marc Marriott, making his feature directorial debut after a few other short films, and other various TV projects and movie featurettes previously. The screenplay is written by Dave Boyle and Ayako Fujitani. It’s produced by Brian Kobo, Marc Marriott, Naoko Miyamoto, Jeri Rafter, Brigham Taylor. This initially premiered at the 2023 Tallgrass Film Festival last year. Purdie Distribution will release Tokyo Cowboy in select US theaters + on VOD starting August 30th, 2024 coming soon. For more info, visit the film’s official site. They also sell merch on Etsy.

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