Rating
Genre
In the Mood for Love, Crime, Eiji Uchida, Black Comedy, Womankind
Year
2017
Country
Japan, UK
Original language
Japanese
Subtitles
English, Spanish, Portuguese
Runtime
95'
Eiji Uchida
Born in a small town in Japan, a young girl named Ai is sent to a cult commune by her religious maniac mother and lives there for seven long years. After the cult is exposed by the police, Ai starts a new stage of life, going to a normal school for the first time, but can’t fit in. Ai drops out from school & society, spending her life living with a delinquent family full of gangsters & call girls. In a strange twist of fate she finds herself back in a new and normal life, living with a middle-class family, but her troubled life continues to follow her into more deep and seedy paths. The only person who understands Ai and her troubles is another cast off from society, Ryota, who is in love with her. Ryota lives in a shady world of delinquents, though wants to escape and live a normal life. The two teens’ purity gets swallowed up by the urban jungle in a big regional city. A black comedy depicting lives of modern youth and their struggles in a place where there is no way out.
Sairi Itô, Denden, Nanami Kawakami, Kenta Suga, Hanae Kan, Kaito Yoshimura, Ami Tomite, Yoshimasa Kondo, Katsuya Maiguma, Leona Hirata, Atsushi Shinohara, Tarou Yabe
Writer: Eiji Uchida; Cinematographer: Maki Ito; Music: Hiroyuki Onogawa; Editing: Masashi Komino
Sitges - International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, Fantasia International Film Festival, Raindance Film Festival, Far East Film Festival, New York Asian Film Festival, Kaohsiung Film Festival
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