Year: 2001
Duration: 83'
How many times can you clap your hands as you hang from your house's parapet? In a Japanese high school, whoever holds the record becomes the school's "boss". In this particular case, the boss is Kujo and his right-hand man is Aoki. The days pass monotonously, nothing ever happens, the only pastime the young people can find is to risk their lives clapping their hands as they hang from the roof of the high school. But the school year is almost over and Kujo has changed. He isn't interested in exercising his power over the others anymore and he starts to ignore Aoki, who decides to become the new boss.
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: Toyoda Toshiaki.
Soggetto e sceneggiatura: Toyoda Toshiaki, da un fumetto di Matsumoto Taiyo.
Director of photography: Kasamatsu Norimichi.
Art director: Harada Mitsuo.
Costume designer: Miyamoto Masae.
Editor: Kusakabe Mototaka.
Sound: Kakizawa Kiyoshi.
Cast and characters: Matsuda Ryuhei (Kujo), Arai Hirofumi (Aoki), Takaoka Sosuke (Yukio), Ohshiba Yusuke (Kimura), Yamazaki Yuta (Ohta), Oshinari Shogo (Yoshimura), Yamada Mame (signor Hanada).
Produzione e vendita all'estero: Miyazaki Dai, Kobayashi per Tomohiro Omega Micott Inc., 1-24-6 Shibuya, shibuya-ku, Tokyo, 150-0002 Japan, tel. +81-3-57780571, fax +81-3-57780572, e-mail ono@omega.co.jp.
Soggetto e sceneggiatura: Toyoda Toshiaki, da un fumetto di Matsumoto Taiyo.
Director of photography: Kasamatsu Norimichi.
Art director: Harada Mitsuo.
Costume designer: Miyamoto Masae.
Editor: Kusakabe Mototaka.
Sound: Kakizawa Kiyoshi.
Cast and characters: Matsuda Ryuhei (Kujo), Arai Hirofumi (Aoki), Takaoka Sosuke (Yukio), Ohshiba Yusuke (Kimura), Yamazaki Yuta (Ohta), Oshinari Shogo (Yoshimura), Yamada Mame (signor Hanada).
Produzione e vendita all'estero: Miyazaki Dai, Kobayashi per Tomohiro Omega Micott Inc., 1-24-6 Shibuya, shibuya-ku, Tokyo, 150-0002 Japan, tel. +81-3-57780571, fax +81-3-57780572, e-mail ono@omega.co.jp.