Country: Japan
Year: 2015
Duration: 122'
Without any money to get home, Tatsuhiko Shiratori is just one of the many tormented souls wandering through the streets of Shinjuku. He walks aimlessly through the evening and ends up in the red-light district of Kabukicho, until the night takes a sudden twist when a gang of thugs assaults him. He is rescued by a stranger called Mako who works for one of the many talent agencies in Kabukicho that recruit pretty girls to work in bars and clubs: the girls offer their services and, in exchange for protection, men like Mako get a cut of their profits. It doesn’t take long for Mako to convince a very optimistic Tatsuhiko Shiratori to undertake his same career. But the red-light universe of the district soon turns out to be less glamorous than he expected.
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
soggetto/story
dall’omonimo manga di/from the manga of the same title by Ken Wakui
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Osamu Suzuki, Rikiya Mizushima
fotografia/cinematography
Hideo Yamamoto
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Go Ayano (Tatsuhiko Shiratori), Erika Sawajiri (Ageha), Takayuki Yamada (Hideyoshi Minami), Yusuke Iseya (Mako), Nobuaki Kaneko (Yutaka Hayama), Motoki Fukami (Gensuke Seki), Jun Murakami (Tokimasa), Yuki Kubota (Yosuke), Erina Mano (Eiko),
Manami Marutaka (Riko), Ken Yasuda (Takashi Matsukata), Yu Yamada (Ryoko), Kosuke Toyohara (Jin Yamashiro), Kotaro Yoshida (Shuzen Amano), Kisetsu Fujiwara, Yuki Sakurai (Misaki)
produttore/producer
Mataichiro Yamamoto
contatti/contacts
Tristone Entertainment
Yaemi Aoki
aoki@tristone.co.jp
www.tristone.co.jp
Sion Sono
soggetto/story
dall’omonimo manga di/from the manga of the same title by Ken Wakui
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Osamu Suzuki, Rikiya Mizushima
fotografia/cinematography
Hideo Yamamoto
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Go Ayano (Tatsuhiko Shiratori), Erika Sawajiri (Ageha), Takayuki Yamada (Hideyoshi Minami), Yusuke Iseya (Mako), Nobuaki Kaneko (Yutaka Hayama), Motoki Fukami (Gensuke Seki), Jun Murakami (Tokimasa), Yuki Kubota (Yosuke), Erina Mano (Eiko),
Manami Marutaka (Riko), Ken Yasuda (Takashi Matsukata), Yu Yamada (Ryoko), Kosuke Toyohara (Jin Yamashiro), Kotaro Yoshida (Shuzen Amano), Kisetsu Fujiwara, Yuki Sakurai (Misaki)
produttore/producer
Mataichiro Yamamoto
contatti/contacts
Tristone Entertainment
Yaemi Aoki
aoki@tristone.co.jp
www.tristone.co.jp
