Year: 1990
Duration: 93'
Shir? and Keita are friends; they live in the town of Toyokawa and both of them have to make some choices regarding their future. Instead of studying for the university entrance exams, they shilly-shally without any interest in entering adulthood. They deliver newspapers to make ends meet. Shir?, who would like to become an artist, tries to finish a Super8 film begun in high school, while Keita seems to have become completely apathetic. “The year is 1990, the beginning of that decade that would see the bursting of the baburu, the economic bubble that fueled Japan’s growth in the ’80s. Like few other films of that period, Bicycle Sighs has the merit of capturing the discontent, the uncertainty and the fears of a generation, well before they manifested themselves. [...] He gives us a very different image of Japan from the predominant one in those years. There are no lights, clubs, wealth or security, but instead an uncertain and vacillating daily life that moves with difficulty in a highly anonymous, provincial landscape.” (Matteo Boscarol)
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
soggetto, sceneggiatura/story, screenplay
Sono Sion, Saito Hisashi
fotografia/cinematography
Kitazawa Hiroyuki
montaggio/film editing
Ishihara Hajime
scenografia/production design
Suzuki Takuji
musica/music
Bobo Brasil, Great Richies
suono/sound
Kitamura Yoshiaki
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Sion Sono (Kita Shir?), Sugiyama Masahiro (Tamura Keita), Kasai Hiromi (Kita Masako), Yamamoto Hiroko (Ky?ko)
produttori/producers
Nishimura Takashi, Suzuki Yutaka, K?ji Takeda
produzione, vendita all’estero/production, world sales
Pia Film Festival
