Year: 1993
Duration: 110'
Nami decides to leave her violent lover, Namekata, who runs a women's-only night club. She happens to see a strange advertisement: "Jiro Kurenai - available for any type of business". Nami pretends she is a tourist and has Jiro accompany her on a visit to Tokyo. At night in an elegant hotel, she asks him to eliminate Namekata. Jiro goes away She is left alone and hides a knife under a pillow. A little bit later Namekata arrives. When he finds the knife, he beats Nami, threatens her, and, finally, rapes her. When he goes to take a bath later, Nami kills him. The next day Jiro receives a message in which Nami asks him to pick up a package for her at the hotel. When he gets there, Jiro discovers that the package really is Namekata's corpse. After a few moments of uncertainty, he decides to carry it away. His tragic adventure begins. A psychopathic partner of the dead Namekata, a clean-cut young man with glasses, a transvestite who runs a jazz club whose customers come from the world of the yakuza, and Nami herself also take part in this adventure.
Biography
film director
Ishii Takashi
Born in Sendai, 1954, Ishii Takashi started his career as a cartoonist when he was a student at Waseda University. He entered the film world in 1978, when he was given the task of adapting his own cartoons to the cinema. He then embarked on a number of projects, most importantly his "Roman Porno" (romantic soft-core very much in vogue in the seventies) for Nikkatsu. He got into directing films in 1988.
FILMOGRAFIA
Tenshi no harawata akai memai (1988), Gekka no ran (1991), Shinde mo ii (Original Sin, 1992), Nudo no yoru (A Night in Nude, 1993), Yoru ga mata kuru (Alone in the Night, 1994), Gonin (1995).
Cast
& Credits
Director and screenplay: lshii Takashi.
Director of photography: Sasakibara Yasushi.
Art director: Yamazaki Teru.
Editor: Kawashima Akimasa.
Music: Yasukawa Goro.
Sound: Sugiyama Atsuki.
Cast and characters: Takenaka Naoto (Kureani Jiro), Yo Kimiko (Tuchiya Nami), Shiina Kippei (Sendo Tatsuru), Shimizu Yoshiko, lwamatsu Ryo, Kobayashi Hiroshi.
Director of Production: Inami Munetaka, Okada Yulaka.
Production company: New Century Producers Co., LTD., Nogizaka Ropponica Bldg., 7F, 9-6-24 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo, tel. +81-3-34700331, fax +81-3-34702628.
Italian distribution: Argo Project, tel. +81-3-35846237, fax +81-3-35846238.
Director of photography: Sasakibara Yasushi.
Art director: Yamazaki Teru.
Editor: Kawashima Akimasa.
Music: Yasukawa Goro.
Sound: Sugiyama Atsuki.
Cast and characters: Takenaka Naoto (Kureani Jiro), Yo Kimiko (Tuchiya Nami), Shiina Kippei (Sendo Tatsuru), Shimizu Yoshiko, lwamatsu Ryo, Kobayashi Hiroshi.
Director of Production: Inami Munetaka, Okada Yulaka.
Production company: New Century Producers Co., LTD., Nogizaka Ropponica Bldg., 7F, 9-6-24 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo, tel. +81-3-34700331, fax +81-3-34702628.
Italian distribution: Argo Project, tel. +81-3-35846237, fax +81-3-35846238.
