Country: Japan
Year: 2021
Duration: 61
A young woman is stuck within a rather unhappy relationship. Not only is her relationship with her boyfriend devoid of conversations – both seem unable to address the “romantic” other from their subject, but their relationship is also devoid of any sexuality. Then, one night after her boyfriend left unsatisfied by her cooking, a strange alien-like creature comes to her and sexually ‘attacks’ her.
Biography
film director
Kenichi Ugana
(Tokyo, Japan, 1984) His best-known films include Extraneous Matter - Complete Edition, which was screened at the Torino Film Festival, Festival du Nouveau Cinema and Motelx and Visitors, which has been screened at Fantasporto, Slamdance Film Festival, Montreal Festival du nouveau cinema, Leeds International Film Festival and LA Shorts International Film Festival, Tampere Film Festival, NY Asian Film Festival, Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival, etc. His films Wild Virgin and Love Will Tear Us Apart were screened at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival. Visitors - Complete Edition has been screened at Fantastic Fest and Festival du Nouveau Cinema.
FILMOGRAFIA
Ganguro-Gal’s Riot (2016), Good-Bye Silence (2018), Wild Virgins (2019), Rolling Marbles (2020), Extraneous Matter - Complete Edition (2021), The Empty Flowerpot (2022), The Girls (2023), Visitors - Complete Edition (2023).
Declaration
film director
“In October 2019, I shot Extraneous Matter. But then, the world changed drastically. In search of a more absurd story, I shot Coexistence in June 2020. Still, the absurdity of the world does not stop. Why should so many people who are not bad at all suffer? The only way for me to fight it was through film. In October 2020, I shot Propagation and Disappearance in an attempt to depict people desperately living in the midst of absurdity while almost drowning. I realized that it had been exactly one year since Extraneous Matter. Then, I put those four short films together to make a feature film called Extraneous Matter-Complete Edition.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY: Kenichi Ugana. CINEMATOGRAPHY, FILM EDITING: Maasashi Komino. MUSIC: Hiroyuki Onogawa. SOUND: Yuya Shito. CAST: Kaoru Koide, Shunsuke Tanaka, Momoko Ishida, Kaito Yoshimura, Makoto Tanaka, Shuto Miyazaki, Dankan, Mizuki Takanashi, Momoko Tanabe. PRODUCTION: SouthcatCo.Ltd., Vandalism Co.Ltd.
CONTACT: Kenichi Ugana wildvirgin.movie@gmail.com
