Year: 2006
Duration: 85'
Jun Ariyoshi is arrested after the killing of a man in a fight broken-out in the bar where he worked. In jail he meets Shiro Kazuki, a very charming man who wears strange-looking tattoos. Brutal and violent, Shiro soon makes his way up the hierarchy of inmates. Jun feels drawn by Shiro’s strength and decisiveness. They gradually become friends, and then, a couple. Determined to let nothing and no-one come between them. Then, however, an incident occurs. A prison warder is witness to a young man strangling another prisoner. Shortly afterwards, the victim breathes his last. It is Shiro, while the killer is Jun. What could have caused their terrible fight?
Biography
film director
Takashi Miike
(Yao, Osaka, Japan, 1960) studied at the Imamura Shoei film school and later he spent almost a decade working in TV, before becoming an assistant director. The Japan Cinema boom of the early 90s was to be his break into directing his own films. His first theatrically distributed film was Shinjuku Triad Society (1995), and from then on he alternated TV films with higher budgeted pictures. His international breakthrough came with Audition (1999), which with Dead or Alive (2000) and Izo (2004), Big Bang Love, Juvenile A (2006), Sukiyaki Western Django (2007), 13 Assassins(2010), Yakuza Apocalypse (2015), and First Love (2019) allowed him to be considered one of the masters of the contemporary Japanese cinema. A prolific and indefatigable director, he has directed hundreds of movies.
FILMOGRAFIA
Shinjuku Triad Society (1995), Fudoh: The New Generation (1996), Rainy Dog (1997), The Bird People in China (1998), Blues Harp (1998), Ley Lines (1999), Audition (1999), Dead or Alive (1999), The City of Lost Souls (2000), Dead or Alive 2: Birds (2000), The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001), Visitor Q (2001), Ichi the Killer (2001), Dead or Alive: Final (2002), Gozu (2003), The Call (The Call - Non rispondere, 2003), Izo (2004), Three... Extremes (ep., 2004), Zebraman (2004), The Great Yokai War (2005), Big Bang Love, Juvenile A (2006), Imprint (ep. tv, 2006), Sukiyaki Western Django (2007), Crows Zero (2007), Yattaman (Yattaman - Il film, 2009), 13 Assassins (13 Assassinsi, 2010), Hara-Kiri: Morte di un samurai (2011), For Love’s Sake (2012), Shield of Straw (2013), The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji (2014), As the Gods Will (2014), Over Your Dead Body (2014), Yakuza Apocalypse (2015), The Mole Song: Hong Kong Capriccio (2016), Blade of the Immortal (L’immortale, 2017), JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable (2017), Laplace’s Witch (2018), First Love (L’ultimo yakuza, 2019), Lumberjack the Monster (2023), Bad Liutenant: Tokyo (2026).