Country: Japan, UK, Taiwan
Year: 2012
Duration: 133'
In the near future, the tranquility of a rural Japanese village is shattered by a terrible earthquake which causes a nuclear catastrophe. The inhabitants are forced to evacuate the area: in an atmosphere of general mistrust of the government’s actions, Mitsuru and his girlfriend Yoko search for their family members, while the Onos have to decide whether or not to abandon their home. The elderly parents reluctantly allow themselves to be convinced, while the daughter-in-law, who is pregnant, lives in constant fear that the radiation might have damaged her baby.
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).
Declaration
film director
“The problem that surrounds the nuclear power plants is different from the other in that the goal for recovery cannot really be planned. This is a very important and serious issue. The media repeatedly reported such stories as families who were forced to live separately or the dairy farmer who killed himself after the accident. But those news reports or documentary programs are the record of information. Instead, what I wanted to depict and record in this film were the feelings and emotions.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Sion Sono
fotografia/cinematography Shigenori Miki
montaggio/film editing Jyunichi Ito
scenografia/production design Shinichi Matsuzuka
suono/sound Hajime Komiya
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Isao Natsuyagi (Yasuhiko Ono), Naoko Otani (Chieko), Atsushi Murakami (Yoichi), Megumi Kagurazaka (Izumi), Yutaka Shimizu (Mitsuru), Hikari Kajiwara (Yoko), Mariko Tsutsui (la signora/Mrs Suzuki), Denden (il signor/Mr Suzuki), Daikichi Sugawara, Takashi Yamanaka, Kenzou Kawarasaki
produttori/producers Yuji Sadai, Mizue Kunizane, Yuko Shiomaki coproduttori/coproducers Adam Torel, James Liu
vendita all'estero/world sales pictures dept.
fotografia/cinematography Shigenori Miki
montaggio/film editing Jyunichi Ito
scenografia/production design Shinichi Matsuzuka
suono/sound Hajime Komiya
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Isao Natsuyagi (Yasuhiko Ono), Naoko Otani (Chieko), Atsushi Murakami (Yoichi), Megumi Kagurazaka (Izumi), Yutaka Shimizu (Mitsuru), Hikari Kajiwara (Yoko), Mariko Tsutsui (la signora/Mrs Suzuki), Denden (il signor/Mr Suzuki), Daikichi Sugawara, Takashi Yamanaka, Kenzou Kawarasaki
produttori/producers Yuji Sadai, Mizue Kunizane, Yuko Shiomaki coproduttori/coproducers Adam Torel, James Liu
vendita all'estero/world sales pictures dept.
