KESSEN! JOSHIRYO TAI DANSHIRYO

A world-class marathon becomes the catalyst of clashes between the guests of a women’s and a men’s dormitory. Armed with toy machineguns and pistols, the young people challenge each other in a breathless race through the city streets. For one of the girls, the battle ends on the beach, where she watches an amazing event take place.

“It was the filmmaker’s first film to set aside pure, personal introspection and exhibit an outline of a story, albeit extremely free, impalpable and anything but linear. The characters continue to seem like emanations of Sono himself and, in fact, one of the male protagonists is portrayed by the director himself. And yet the variety of characters appears richer; even though their personalities are only sketched out in a chaotic, fragmentary and highly digressive fresco, they seem to breathe on their own. On a thematic level, there are those dynamics of encounter/clash between the sexes, of belonging to groups, of submission and break-up, that are perfectly expressed in more elaborate films like Love Exposure.” (Giacomo Calorio)

regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura, fotografia, montaggio, scenografia, produttore/director, story, screenplay, cinematography, film editing, production design, producer

Sion Sono

interpreti/cast

Kawanishi Hiromi, Kobayashi Kazuko, Hida Rinko, Oguchi Utako, Suzuki Kensuke, Sion Sono

vendita all’estero/world sales

Pictures Dept.