18° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
Special Program - New Japanese Cinema
KANASHIKU NARUHODO FUJITSUNA YOZORA NI
Year: 2000
Duration: 62'
Autumn, 1997. Ryuko, her brother Syuwa and their father Matsuo live in a small apartment. Matsuo loses his job after a quarrel and the Kato family's livelihood depends on young Ryuko, who secretly poses nude for various pornographic magazines. Matsuo ends up discovering his daughter's secret activity and throws her out of the house. Despite this, Ryuko continues working in the world of pornography and supporting her little brother and father.
Biography
film director
Ujita Takashi
Ujita Takeshi was born in Wakayama in 1975. He began shooting in 8mm film while still at university. He graduated in 1997 with the film Pornotic Nite. In 1998, he decided to dedicate himself to making Kanashiku, naruhodo fujitsuna yozora ni, which he completed this past summer.
FILMOGRAFIA
Pornotic Nite (16mm, 1997), Kanashiku, naruhodo fujitsuna yozora ni (Ryuko, in the Unfaithful Evening, 2000).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto e montaggio: Ujita Takashi.
Screenplay: Ujita Takashi, Mukai Kosuke.
Director of photography: Kondo Ryuto, Mukai Kosuke.
Art director: Wake Toshiyuki, Shibata Go.
Sound: Arai Makoto.
Music: AKA-INU.
Cast and characters: Hazuki Hotaru (Kato Ryuko), Sawada Syunsuke (Kato Syuwa), Furukawa Jyunichi (Kato Matsuo), Kawashima Kahori (Umakawa Ohina), Ozawa Yosiaki (Natume Kouji), Maeda Hiromichi (Inumatsu Tsukuru).
Producer: Ujita Takashi.
Production company: Ochanoma Classics, #402, Color-Tenjinbashi, 1-12-17 Honjo-Higashi, Kita-ku, 531-0074 Osaka, Japan, tel. e fax +81-6-63598187, e-mail kwauozoz@25.zzz.or.jp.
Foreign sales agent: Planet Studio Plus 1, 81 Kansaichuo Bldg., 15-2 Doyamacho Umeda, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan, tel. +81-6-63128231, fax +81-6-63128232, e-mail planet1@mll.alpha-net.ne.jp.