Rating
Genre
Black comedy, New Entries, Supernatural
Year
2016
Country
Japan
Original language
Japanese
Subtitles
English
Runtime
70'
Norihiro Niwatsukino
Ninko is a devout and unusually handsome young Buddhist monk in Edo-period Japan-with a serious predicament: wherever he goes women and some men find him sexually irresistible and follow him around like rats to the Pied Piper. He seeks righteousness but since sex is considered a sinful indulgence, Ninko finds himself overwhelmed with guilt. No matter what odds, he tries to resist but is then literally assaulted in the woods by a voluptuous specter wearing a Noh mask, a manifestation of his fears and desires. Finally unable to parse the difference between reality and hallucination, Ninko must make a steadfast commitment in one direction or the other.
Masato Tsujioka, Miho Wakabayashi, Hideta Iwahashi, Yukino Arimoto
Writer: Norihiro Niwatsukino; Cinematographers: Takayuki Okazaki, Shunichiro Yamamoto; Editor: Norihiro Niwatsukino
Vancouver IFF, Busan IFF, Hong Kong IFF, Seattle IFF
- Suffering of Ninko, 2016
- Strawberry Jam, short, 2010