Year: 2010
Duration: 144'
Shamoto Noboyuki, who owns a small fish shop, lives a normal life with his daughter Mitsuko and his new wife Taeko, until one day he meets Murata Yukio, who owns a much larger fish shop than his. The two begin to frequent each other and Mitsuko hires Murata to work for him alongside the other young shop clerks, thus tightening the bonds between the two families even further. But when Murata reveals his true nature, it is too late for Shamoto to back out. “With Love Exposure, my shell exploded and now I have no more love. That’s it. That’s the film. I have no more love nor hope nor god. All I have is sadness, despair, darkness. I shot this film to cheer me up. It’s inspired by the real story of a man who killed between 50 and 100 people. He’s a serial murderer who committed almost perfect crimes. Japanese police only found five: the murderer is the only one to know exactly how many people he killed. In Cold Fish, the main character is not the murderer but another person that he manipulates.”
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, Takahashi Yoshiki
fotografia/cinematography
Kimura Shin’ya
montaggio/film editing
It? Jun’ichi
scenografia/production design
Matsuzuka Takashi
costumi/costume design
Sato e Araki
musica/music
Tomohide Harada
suono/sound
Hajime Komiya
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Fukikoshi Mitsuru (Shamoto Noboyuki), Denden (Murata Yukio), Kurosawa Asuka (Murata Aiko), Kagurazaka Megumi (Shamoto Taeko), Kajiwara Hikari (Shamoto Mitsuko), Watanabe Tetsu (Tsuitsui Takayasu), Suwa Taro (Yoshida), Pe Jyon-myon (Okubo Hiroshi)
produttori/producers
Yoshinori Chiba, Toshiki Kimura
produzione/production
The Sushi Typhoon, Stair Way
vendita all’estero/world sales
Nikkatsu
