Year: 1997
Duration: 61'
Tokyo. In her small apartment, Keiko is waiting for her 22nd birthday to arrive. Lonely and sad, the girl spend her days in devastating monotony, counting the minutes as they pass and remembering her father, who died a year earlier. She reflects, rests, watches TV, listens to sounds and noises, looks through the window at the changes to the outside world, until she conquers it physically by taking a long walk through the city streets to a snowy field, where Keiko comes to the inevitable conclusion that, deep down, nothing will ever change. “The film, like many other films Sono made before Suicide Club, has strong ties to an experimental dimension, it is almost an example of poetry in images, of a direct dialog between the filmmaker and his spectator. But it is also an attempt to recount and describe the passage from adolescence to adulthood, a period of conflict, characterized by grueling research in order to understand and define oneself. The director will return to this theme several times in his later films.” (Luca Calderini)
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
fotografia/cinematography
Won On-ling
suono/sound
Suzuki Daisuke
interprete/cast
Suzuki Keiko (Suzuki Keiko)
produttore/producer
Yoshida Shunji
vendita all’estero/world sales
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