Year: 1998
Duration: 102'


Kamijo directs a house of prostitution in the Shibuya district and is forced to pay a percentage of his intake to the yakuza. The terrible Arano appears suddenly. He is a cold and merciless killer with something mysterious to do. A strange relationship grows between him and Kamijo made up of respect, fear, and antagonism. One day Alisu, one of the prostitutes, gets her hands on a gigantic load of LSD. At this point all the equilibrium breaks down to make way for a spiral of violence.

Biography

film director

Toyoda Toshiaki

Toyoda Toshiaki was born in Osaka in 1969. From the ages of 9 to17 he was a member of the prestigious Shogi Promotion Association, a chess club. In 1991 he entered the world of cinema as a screenwriter for Ote (Checkmate) by Sakamoto Junji. In 1998 he directed his first film, Pornostar, a successful film that takes place in Tokyo, in the Shibuya district. Last year he made Unchain, a documentary about a famous Japanese boxer.

FILMOGRAFIA

Pornostar (1998), Unchain (2000), Blue Spring (2001).

Cast

& Credits

Director and screenplay: Toyoda Toshiaki. Director of photography: Kasamatsu Norimichi. Editor: Fukano Toshihide. Art director: Miura Shinichi. Sound: Yamagata Hiroshi. Music: DIP. Cast and characters: Chihara Koji (Arano), Onimaru (Kamijo), Ozawa Rin (Alisu). Produzione e vendita all'estero: Takei Masakazu, Kikuchi Miyoshi per Little More Co., 3-3-24 Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, 107-0062 Tokyo, Japan, tel. +81-3-34011042, fax +81-3-34011052.
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