12° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Feature Film Competition 1994

Enjeru dasuto

ANGEL DUST
by Gakuryû Ishii (as Sogo Ishii)
Country: Japan
Year: 1994
Duration: 116'


A young woman is killed in the evening rush hour train in the megalopolis, Tokyo. A week later, another woman is killed under the same circumstances. Then another… Setsuko Suma, a pretty analyst on abnormal criminal personalities is assigned to the case. As she takes part in the investigation, a key man surfaces. His name is Rei Aku, a psychiatrist Setsuko and Aku are no strangers. They once worked together They were madly in love. But Aku was expelled from the university, owing to his unique, or rather menacing, philosophical approach in the field of brainwashing. Fate reunites Setsuko and Aku, this time as an investigator and a suspect A highly advanced mind control and psychoanalysis are executed by Aku, and Setsuko, in the course of her investigation, is seized by a powerful psychological conflict. As the story unfolds, mysteries increase, and the suspenseful melodrama of a man and a woman interwines towards an unexpected ending...

Cast

& Credits

Director: Ishii Sogo.
Screenplay: Ishii Sogo, Ikuta Yorozu.
Director of photography: Kasamatsu Norimichi.
Art director: Maruo Tomoyuki.
Editor: Matsuo Hiroshi, Ishii Sogo.
Music: Nagashima Hiroyuk.
Sound: Kikuchi Noboyuki.
Cast and characters: Minami Kaho (Suma Setsuko), Wakamatsu Takeshi (Aku Rei), Toyokawa Etsushi (Tomoo), Takizawa Ryoko (Takei Yuki), Sionoya Masayuki (Banba Fumio), Kondo Toshinori (Shimada Kôtaro), Yamato Yukio (Ashida Shinji).
Director of Production: Kanno Satoshi.
Production company: Euro Space, 248604, Sakuragaokacho, Shibuyaku, Tokyo 150, Japan, tel. +81334610212, fax +81337704179.
Foreign sales agent: Celluioid Dreams, 24 rue Lamartine, 75009 Paris, France, tel. +33149700370, fax +33149700371.
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