Country: Japan
Year: 2015
Duration: 85'
A school bus with forty schoolgirls is cut in half by a sudden gust of wind. Mitsuko, who happened to bend over by chance, is the only survivor of the accident. All she can do is run away as fast as possible from that killer wind. But when she gets to school, Mitsuko starts to doubt whether the accident was just a nightmare. Shortly thereafter, a teacher grabs a machine gun and starts shooting everyone down, except for Mitsuko, who started running again. Until someone calls her Keiko and tells her it’s her wedding day. A pig in a suit threatens her and starts chasing her: Mitsuko has to start running once more. Is she the victim of a bad dream or of a game in which her life is at stake?
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
“It was a wonderful experience for me to attend the Torino Film Festival previously. Now I am so excited that my film TAG will be showcased there. Thank you very much.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Sion Sono
soggetto/story
dal romanzo/from the novel Chasing World di/by Yusuke Yamada
fotografia/cinematography
Maki Ito
montaggio/film editing
Junichi Ito
scenografia/production design
Takashi Matsuzuka
costumi/costume design
Masami Ito
musica/music
Tomoatsu Kikuchi
suono/sound
Hajime Komiya
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Reina Triendl (Mitsuko), Mariko Shinoda (Keiko), Erina Mano (Izumi)
produttori/producers
Masayuki Tanishima, Ryuichiro Inagaki, Takahiro Ohno
produzione/production
Tag Film Partners
contatti/contacts
Shochiku
Azusa Taki
azusa_taki@shochiku.co.jp
www.shochikufilms.com
Sion Sono
soggetto/story
dal romanzo/from the novel Chasing World di/by Yusuke Yamada
fotografia/cinematography
Maki Ito
montaggio/film editing
Junichi Ito
scenografia/production design
Takashi Matsuzuka
costumi/costume design
Masami Ito
musica/music
Tomoatsu Kikuchi
suono/sound
Hajime Komiya
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Reina Triendl (Mitsuko), Mariko Shinoda (Keiko), Erina Mano (Izumi)
produttori/producers
Masayuki Tanishima, Ryuichiro Inagaki, Takahiro Ohno
produzione/production
Tag Film Partners
contatti/contacts
Shochiku
Azusa Taki
azusa_taki@shochiku.co.jp
www.shochikufilms.com
