Year: 2005
Duration: 103'
Japan, 1991. Shin, a university student, feels caged in by his monotonous life and decides to leave for New York. After arriving in the big city, he soon makes friends with Lee and Takeda, a Japanese-American couple who make ends meet through robbery and drug dealing. Thanks to these two new friends, the young man comes into contact with New York’s crime world and experiences the exciting and adventurous life he had dreamt of, until Lee is arrested and Shin has no choice but to return to Tokyo. “I began to write a script based on a true event, a real sadomasochism murder that took place in the USA. The murderer lived in New York so I went there to shoot the film. When the shooting began I decided to get rid of the original script, that is a film about this murderer. I also remembered the film Easy Rider, especially the part shot during the carnival in New Orleans. It’s shot with a hand-held camera without any artificial lights. So Hazard was shot that way.”
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/director
Sion Sono
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Sion Sono, Kumakiri Kazuyoshi
fotografia/cinematography
Yanagida Hiro’o
montaggio/film editing
Kakesu Shûichi
scenografia/production design
Maruyama Yuji, Takamura Yuji
costumi/costume design
Yumi Maruoka
musica/music
Harada Tomohide
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Odagiri Jô (Shin), Jai West (Lee), Fukami Motoki (Takeda), Ikeuchi Hiroyuki (Won), Hagiwara Sayako (Saya Hagiwara), Richard Brundage (Deli Owner), Austin Basis (Angry Deli Vigilante), Carson Grant (Bruce Hack)
produttore/producer
Takeshi Suzuki
produzione/production
Evokative Film, Ellen Corporation
vendita all’estero/world sales
Eleven Arts
