27° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL

TORSO

TORSO
by Yutaca Yamazaki
Country: Japan
Year: 2009
Duration: 104'


TORSO
Hiroko doesn’t consider herself a solitary person but she does like to keep her distance from others and can’t stand outside interference. Although she lives an ordinary, normal life, dividing her time between home and work, she has a secret no one suspects. She lives with an inflatable male torso, which she treats like a true fiancé. When her stepsister Mina moves in with her to escape her violent boyfriend, Hiroko’s tranquil life is suddenly turned upside down.

“I came up with the idea for Torso about thirty-five years ago when I saw a male torso in a porn shop in Copenhagen, which had no face, arms or legs, just a dildo. It made me wonder if a torso would be the minimum of a man that a woman could wish for, and I started to think that one day I would like to shoot a film which features a woman who is in love with a torso, not a real man. The thoughts and ideas have changed with time, but I am pleased that the film has been completed with the help of a wonderful cast and crew.”

Biography

film director

Yutaka Yamazaki

Yutaka Yamazaki (Tokyo, Japan, 1940) graduated from the film department of Nihon University in 1963. He late  worked as director of photography for numerous documentaries and TV productions. In 1998 he was director of photography for After Life by Hirokazu Kore-eda, which screened in competition at the Torino Film Festival in 1998, for Distance, by he same director, which competed at the Cannes Film Festival in 2001, as well as for the Japanese director’s next film, Nobody Knows. In 2005 he was director of photography for Kanaria by Akihiko Shiota.

FILMOGRAFIA

filmografia/filmography
Torso (2009).

Cast

& Credits

regia, fotografia/director,cinematography
Yutaka Yamazaki
soggetto, sceneggiatura/story, screenplay
Aki Sato, Yutaka Yamazaki
montaggio/film editing
Yuji Oshige
scenografia/
 production design
China Suzuki
musica/music
Akira Matsumoto
suono/sound
Eiji Mori
interpreti/cast
Makiko Watanabe, Sakura Ando, Sola Aoi, Arata, Renji Ishibashi, Miyako Yamaguchi
produttori/producers
Yutaka Yamazaki, Eisuke Ishige, Michio Koshikawa
produzione/production
104, Transformer
vendita all’estero/world sales
Transformer
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