Taira, an unnervingly quiet delinquent teen, mysteriously leaves town right before the coming of age festival. His disappearance doesn t worry anyone except for younger brother Shota, his only remaining family, who sets off to look for him amidst the faded downtown neon lights. Taira aimlessly wanders through a nearby city, provoking fights with random bystanders. His violent streak intrigues high schooler Yuya who rallies him to beat up more people. As the night progresses, street-side scuffles soon turn into a sinister game, becoming even more mindless and indiscriminate. The two leave behind a trail of blood and mass confusion. Indie director Tetsuya Mariko brings us a deceptive piece of cinema which begins like a slice-of-life story and then takes an abrupt plunge into a pit of moral ambiguity. It stars award-winning actors Yuya Yagira (Nobody Knows) and Masaki Suda (The Light Shines Only There, Princess Jellyfish) in one of their best performances in Japanese cinema this year.
Shamoto runs a small tropical fish shop. His second wife Taeko does not get along with his daughter Mitsuko and this worries him. One day Mitsuko is caught shoplifting at a grocery store. There they meet a friendly man named Murata who helps to settle things between Mitsuko and the store manager. Since Murata also runs a tropical fish shop Shamoto establishes a bond with him and they become friends; Mitsuko even begins working for Murata and living at his house.
Prolific Japanese director Sion Sono (Love Exposure, Himizu) departs from his usual style for this movingly restrained drama of a rural family's struggle to survive in the aftermath of the Tohoku earthquake and the resulting nuclear crisis.
Spirals are everywhere. From snail shells to washing machines to fingertips to the insides of our ears. Wherever you look a spiral isn't far away. But in the sleepy town of Kurouzucho long-time friends Kirie and Shuichi have discovered how deadly spirals can be. A spiral-obsessed man commits suicide in a washing machine leaving his body contorted into a spiral. A young student falls to his death down a spiral staircase. A women becomes so afraid of the spirals on her fingerpr
Shamoto runs a small tropical fish shop. His second wife Taeko does not get along with his daughter Mitsuko and this worries him. One day Mitsuko is caught shoplifting at a grocery store. There they meet a friendly man named Murata who helps to settle things between Mitsuko and the store manager. Since Murata also runs a tropical fish shop Shamoto establishes a bond with him and they become friends; Mitsuko even begins working for Murata and living at his house.
Tetsuo is a lowlife. As a film director, he had an indie hit many years back, but refuses to go against his artistic integrity. One day, two new students come to his school: Minami, a naive girl from the countryside who wants to be an actress, and Ken, a scriptwriter. Tetsuo thinks Minami could be a real star, and Ken has a brilliant script that could relaunch his career as a director. With the help of an unsavory film producer, they strive to turn this project into something tangible, but Minami's ability starts to impress others, and Tetsuo's world soon falls apart.
Prolific Japanese director Sion Sono (Love Exposure, Himizu) departs from his usual style for this movingly restrained drama of a rural family's struggle to survive in the aftermath of the Tohoku earthquake and the resulting nuclear crisis.
Taira, an unnervingly quiet delinquent teen, mysteriously leaves town right before the coming of age festival. His disappearance doesn t worry anyone except for younger brother Shota, his only remaining family, who sets off to look for him amidst the faded downtown neon lights. Taira aimlessly wanders through a nearby city, provoking fights with random bystanders. His violent streak intrigues high schooler Yuya who rallies him to beat up more people. As the night progresses, street-side scuffles soon turn into a sinister game, becoming even more mindless and indiscriminate. The two leave behind a trail of blood and mass confusion. Indie director Tetsuya Mariko brings us a deceptive piece of cinema which begins like a slice-of-life story and then takes an abrupt plunge into a pit of moral ambiguity. It stars award-winning actors Yuya Yagira (Nobody Knows) and Masaki Suda (The Light Shines Only There, Princess Jellyfish) in one of their best performances in Japanese cinema this year.
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