Country: Japan
Year: 2017
Duration: 142'
Manami is getting ready to celebrate her twenty-second birthday with a few friends but she almost dies in a killing spree unleashed by a group of vampires. Her problems don’t end there: two vampires, K, from the Dracula clan, and Yamada, from the Corvin clan, are on her tracks. Yamada locks Manami up in a hotel where human beings are forced to donate blood for all eternity. The first TV series directed by Sion Sono, produced by Amazon.
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
“I always wanted to make a vampire movie: ever since I was a child I have been fascinated by their mysterious nature. Initially I wanted to make a film but then I decided to transform my movie into a TV series, so I could have more time to really dissect all the subplots.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura/director, story, screenplay
Sion Sono
fotografia/cinematography
Maki Ito, Tomoaki Iwakura
montaggio/film editing
Jyunichi Ito, Yoshiki Ushiroda, Emi Onodera
scenografia/production design
Takashi Matsuzuka
costumi/costume design
Kazuhiro Sawataishi
suono/sound
Fumihiko Yanagiya, Akihiko Okase
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Kaho (K), Shinnosuke Mitsushima (Yamada)
produttori/producers
Naoko Komuro, Tomoo Fukatsu
produzione/production
Nikkatsu Studio, Django Film
**
contatti/contacts
Nikkatsu
Mami Furukawa
m.furukawa@nikkatsu.co.jp
intl.nikkatsu.com
Sion Sono
fotografia/cinematography
Maki Ito, Tomoaki Iwakura
montaggio/film editing
Jyunichi Ito, Yoshiki Ushiroda, Emi Onodera
scenografia/production design
Takashi Matsuzuka
costumi/costume design
Kazuhiro Sawataishi
suono/sound
Fumihiko Yanagiya, Akihiko Okase
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Kaho (K), Shinnosuke Mitsushima (Yamada)
produttori/producers
Naoko Komuro, Tomoo Fukatsu
produzione/production
Nikkatsu Studio, Django Film
**
contatti/contacts
Nikkatsu
Mami Furukawa
m.furukawa@nikkatsu.co.jp
intl.nikkatsu.com
