Country: Japan
Year: 1997
Duration: 90'


Tomiko is a young woman who works as a tour guide on a bus, but is tired of her life, which is always the same. One day Niitaka Tatsuo is assigned as bus driver for her bus. All of Tomiko's female coworkers like the young man, but Tomiko is harboring some suspicions of him. In fact, Tomiko's best friend had been Tatsuo's girlfriend. She was killed in a mysterious bus accident while Tatsuo was driving. She suspects that he is a serial killer who seduces the female guides he works with and then kills them mercilessly. Even though she knows these details, Tomiko, nevertheless, feels that she is attracted to the strange youth in some way.

Biography

film director

Sogo Ishii

Ishii Sogo (Fukuoka, 1957) directed his first 8mm feature film when he was twenty-one. Nikkatsu bought the rights to it, but kept its 35mm remake out of distribution. Ishii continued his career as an independent action-film director who often attracted the attention of the large Japanese movie studios. In 1985 he made Gyakufunsha kazoku, which won first prize at the Salsomaggiore Film Festival and was distributed in numerous European countries. His latest film will be based on a Abe Kobo novel.Koukou dai panic (Panic in High School, 8mm, 1978), Kuruizaki Thunder Road (Crazy Thunder Road, 1980), Shuffle (cm, 1981), Bakuretsu Toshi (Burst City, 1982), Gyafukunsha kazoku (Crazy Family, 1984), 1/2 Mensch (Half Man-Neubauten, mm, 1986), Shiatsu Ohja (The Master of Shiatsu, cm, 1989), Angel Dust (1994), Mizunonaka no hachigatsu (August in the Water, 1995), Yumeno ginga (1997).

Cast

& Credits

Director and screenplay: Ishii Sogo.
Plot: da un romanzo di Yurneno Kyusaku.
Director of photography: Kasamatsu Norimichi.
Art director: Isomi Toshihiro.
Editor: Suzuki Kan.
Music: Onodera Hiroyuki.
Cast and characters: Komine Rena (Tomonari Torniko), Asano Tadanobu (Niitaka Tatsuo), Kyono Kotomi (Yamashita Chieko), Mano Kirina (Aiko), Kurotani Tomoka (Tsukikawa Tsuyako).
Produttori: Ito Yasuhiro, Kanno Satoshi.
Produzione e vendita all'estero: KSS Inc., 1218 Nishigotanda, Shinagawaku, Tokyo 141, Japan, tel. +81 354345217, fax +81354348803.
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