Year: 1998
Duration: 60'
A woman and a few men, including a boy wearing a red sweatshirt and a man dressed in black, meet around a gaming table. The man in black kills everyone there, except for the boy in the red sweatshirt, who is injured and with whom he escapes in a car. Just before they part ways, the two stop in an alley and make love. The man dressed in black gives a ride to two hitchhikers, with whom he begins an erotic game which continues until the two are killed. After making other victims, the killer disappears, leaving his toy robot in an abandoned building, where it will be found by the boy in the red sweatshirt.
Biography
film director
Sion Sono
Sion Sono (Toyokawa, Japan, 1961) is an internationally acclaimed Japanese filmmaker. His movies depict Japanese society in a provocative and violent way, amid a plethora of pop culture references. His most renown films include Suicide Club (2002), which is part of a trilogy on alienation along with Noriko’s Dinner Table (2005), winner of the Berliner Zeitung Jury Award, and Love Exposure (2008), winner of the FIPRESCI Award and the Caligari Film Award at the Berlinale. Love Exposure is also the first film of the “trilogy of hate,” which includes Cold Fish (2010) and Guilty of Romance (2011). He participated to the Venice Film Festival in 2011 with the feature Himizu, and in 2013 with Why Don’t You Play in Hell. The Torino Film Festival paid tribute to him with a retrospective in 2011. He participated in several TFF editions with his films Tokyo Tribe (2014), Love & Peace (2015), TAG (2015) and Shinjuku Swan (2015).
FILMOGRAFIA
The Room (1992), Suicide Club (2002), Noriko’s Dinner Table (2005), Strange Circus (2005), Hazard (2006), Exte: Hair Extensions (2007), Love Exposure (2008), Cold Fish (2010), Guilty of Romance (2011), Himizu (2011), Why Don’t You Play in Hell (2013), Tokyo Tribe (2014), Love & Peace (2015), Riaru onigokko (TAG, 2015), Shinjuku suwan (Shinjuku Swan, 2015), Antiporno (2016), Tokyo Vampire Hotel (serie tv/tv series, 2017).
Cast
& Credits
regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura/director, story, screenplay
Sion Sono
interpreti/cast
Ito Takeshi, Hori Yusuke, Ishikawa Yuya, Kuroiwa Kenji
produzione, vendita all’estero/production, world sales
Okura Film
