Country: Japan
Year: 1996
Duration: 100'
Yoichi comes to Tokyo from his home on an island in the sea of Setonai. He meets young Michio, who is a chinpira, making his living as a punk with mob connections. Through their trying days, Yoichi and Michio start a friendship. Michio sleeps with Miya, who is his boss Otani's mistress, and that changes everything right away. Suddenly boss Otani is killed by enemy yakuza hitmen. With Otani gone, Michio and Miya take the gang's money and flee. Worrying about Michio, Yoichi goes after him to the beach at Boso.
Biography
film director
Shinji Aoyama
Aoyama Shinji (Fukuoka, 1964) got his start in the world of cinema at an early age, right after graduating from university. He later worked as assistant director for Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Fridrik Thor Fridriksson and Daniel Schmid. He has made twelve full-length films which have been presented at major international festivals, gaining critical success and winning prestigious prizes in Cannes and Singapore. Almost all his works have been presented in various sections at the Torino Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
Kyokasho ni nai! (1995), Helpless (1996), Chinpira (Two Punks, 1996), Waga mune ni kyoki ari (1996), Wild Life (1997), Tsumetai chi (Obsession, 1997), Sheidi gurobu (Shady Grove, 1999), Enbamingu (Embalming, 1999), June 12 1998 (1999), Eureka (2000), Tsuki no sabaku (Desert Moon, 2001), Shiritsu tantei Hama Mike: Namae no nai mori (Mike Yokoama: A Foorest With No Name, 2002).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Aoyama Shnji.
Plot: da un romanzo di Kaneko Shoji.
Screenplay: Kaneko Shoji, Morioka Toshiyuki.
Director of photography: Ishii Isao.
Art director: Nitta Takayuki.
Editor: Onaga Masahiro.
Music: Ayukawa Makoto.
Sound: Nakayama Takamasa.
Cast and characters: Osawa Takao (Fujikawa Yoichi), Dankan (Umezawa Michio), Kataoka Reiko (Nagasaki Yuko), Aoyama Chikako (Miya), Ishibashi Ryo (Otani).
Produttori: Kai Naoki, Nagasawa Katsuaki, Okagawa Akimoto.
Production company: Taki Corporation, 3F, Academy Bldg., 3-7-4 Sendagaya, Shibuyaku, Tokyo 151, Japan, tel. +81-3-34788022, fax +81-3-34788023.
Foreign sales agent: There's Corporation, 7F, 4-14-19 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104, Japan, tel. +81-3-35421951, fax +81-3-35421913.
Plot: da un romanzo di Kaneko Shoji.
Screenplay: Kaneko Shoji, Morioka Toshiyuki.
Director of photography: Ishii Isao.
Art director: Nitta Takayuki.
Editor: Onaga Masahiro.
Music: Ayukawa Makoto.
Sound: Nakayama Takamasa.
Cast and characters: Osawa Takao (Fujikawa Yoichi), Dankan (Umezawa Michio), Kataoka Reiko (Nagasaki Yuko), Aoyama Chikako (Miya), Ishibashi Ryo (Otani).
Produttori: Kai Naoki, Nagasawa Katsuaki, Okagawa Akimoto.
Production company: Taki Corporation, 3F, Academy Bldg., 3-7-4 Sendagaya, Shibuyaku, Tokyo 151, Japan, tel. +81-3-34788022, fax +81-3-34788023.
Foreign sales agent: There's Corporation, 7F, 4-14-19 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104, Japan, tel. +81-3-35421951, fax +81-3-35421913.
