Transparent: Tribute to a Sad Genius (サトラレ) 23 years old

Transparent: Tribute to a Sad Genius

Satorare is about the lives of "Transparents" - people who telepathically broadcast their every thought to anybody in a 10m radius. Because having everybody know your inner thoughts would be terminally embarrassing, Japanese society passes a law that Transparents must never be told of their affliction. They're moved into special cities where everybody is instructed to act as if the person is totally normal... it's worth going to such lengths because Transparents invariably have massive IQs and have produced many useful things for society. The result is a Truman Show-esque situation where everybody around Transparent Masanobu Ando has to act completely normal. A psychiatrist is sent into the city to observe Masanobu Ando and attempt to divert his attentions away from surgery (his desired career) to a more socially beneficial career in research. She learns how hard life is for him, and for some reason falls in love with him...

Credits

Transparent: Tribute to a Sad Genius Cast

Name Character
Yutaka Matsushige He was 38, now 61 years old as Shigefumi Shiraki
Akira Terao He was 53, now 77 years old as Takayuki Azuma
Kyōka Suzuki She was 32, now 56 years old as Yoko Komatsu
Takehiko Ono He was 58, now 82 years old as Hirokazu Kunimitsu
Masanobu Ando He was 25, now 49 years old as Kenichi Satomi
Rina Uchiyama She was 19, now 43 years old as Megumi Kawakami

Transparent: Tribute to a Sad Genius Crew

Name Department
Katsuyuki Motohiro as Director. He was 35 (now 59) years old Directing
Masashi Todayama as Writer. He was 38 (now 62) years old Writing
Transparent: Tribute to a Sad Genius poster
Transparent: Tribute to a Sad Genius (23 years)

  • Release day: Saturday, March 17, 2001
  • Runtime: 128 minutes