Japan, the final years of WWII: the crossed destinies of a prostitute who has never experienced pleasure but continues to search for it, of a failed author who uses sex to drown the pain he feels for the upheavals his country is undergoing, and of a soldier who has returned home without an arm and is unable to live a normal life again because he is obsessed by the rapes committed on the Chinese front. An inextricable tangle of guilt and violence generated by the madness of war, which hounds the three characters like a nightmare.
Biography
film director
Junichi Inoue
Junichi Inoue (Aichi, Japan, 1965) studied at the University of Waseda, in Tokyo, one of Japan’s most important private universities; at the same time he worked for Wakamatsu Production. After collaborating on many productions as director’s assistant, he debuted as a director in 1990 with the anthological movie Pantsu no ana, Mukesode mukenai Ichigotachi. He began working as a screenwriter in the mid-90s, writing various movie scripts, including Pure Asia by Ikki Katashima in 2011. A Woman and War is his first feature film.
FILMOGRAFIA
Pantsu no ana, Mukesode mukenai Ichigotachi (1990), Sensô to irori no onna (A Woman and a War, 2102).
Declaration
film director
“People forget. The Japanese people are particularly forgetful. That forgetfulness allows them to ignore inconvenient historic facts and their WWII crimes. Surely such forgetfulness has led to Japan’s shaky relations in Asia now. My mission as a filmmaker was to make a movie about those issues that the Japanese would rather forget.”
Cast
& Credits
Junichi Inoue
SCENEGGIATURA
Haruhiko Arai, Futoshi Nakano
FOTOGRAFIA
Atsuhiro Nabeshima
MONTAGGIO
Tomoko Hiruta
SCENOGRAFIA
Toshihiro Isomi
MUSICA
Shinji Aoyama, Isao Yamada
SUONO
Masaru Usui
INTERPRETI
Noriko Eguchi, Masatoshi Nagase, Jun Murakami, Akira Emoto, Shoko Takao, Yoko Oshima, Yoshi Sako, Yota Kawase, Kazuhiro Sano, Miku Chiba, Fuko Makino, Yoko Oike, Marron, Nao Seta, Mikiya Sanada, Yoichi Iijima, Ryo Ushimaru, Takahiro Ono, Hayato Kusano, Yuto Fukushi, Guillaume Tauveron
PRODUTTORE
Ikki Katashima
PRODUZIONE
Dogsugar Movies, A Woman and War Production Committee
CONTATTI
Office Futaba
Kayoko Nakanishi
Tel +81-90-9392-5984
kayoko_nakanishi@hotmail.co.jp