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Completed - JAPANESE - Drama - 80 minutes

Log Line

Dark shadows and mixed emotions are gradually uncovered amid the confusion in which unique characters are running about. The film jumps across the boundary of comedy and serious drama skillfully, expanding a world full of emptiness and nonsense that nobody has ever seen.

Year of production : 2009

Director(s) : Dai SAKO
Writer(s) : Dai SAKO, Yasuyuki ODA
Cast : Katsuya KOBAYASHI, Mihiro

Producer(s) : Yasuyuki ODA (AMUMO)

Synopsis

Hideji lives in a suburb of Tokyo adjoining the area with huge plants and industrial complexes. He is unemployed and drifts about aimlessly. His girl friend, Azami who lives with Hideji is discontent with his loose life. On the morning of Hideji’s birthday, an argument between them provoked a burst of anger from Azami, and Asami decides to plan a mock-kidnapping. The idea is to make Hideji believe that Azami was kidnapped by debt collectors, threaten Hideji, and get back all the money Azami had loaned him. Azami goes to her brother Yuichi and asks for his cooperation, and carries out her plan. Tanabe, who feels love for Azami, also joins them. However, Yuichi, who suffers from various inferiority complexes, does not proactively engage in the project, and time passes by without much successful progress. On the other hand, although Hideji worries about Azami, he does not take any concrete action. In such circumstances, things turn un-expectedly.

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Country(ies) : JAPAN

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