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Completed - JAPANESE - Drama - 115 minutes

Log Line

I am Marin, but I won't tell you my real name.

Previous markets

  • Cannes 2010 (Debut)
  • Berlin EFM 2011 (Line up)
Full history

Year of production : 2009

Director(s) : Kazuya SHIRAISHI
Writer(s) : Izumi TAKAHASHI, Kazuya SHIRAISHI
Cast : Chika UCHIDA, Katsuya KOBAYASHI, Takaki UDA

Producer(s) : Hiroaki SAITO, Takahito OBINATA

Synopsis

Mikio Kurosaki (Katsuya Kobayashi), who works for a condominium sales company, is not successful and rebuked from his superior.
Mikio loses his parents and begins to live with his mentally deficient brother Saneo (Takaki Uda).
Sometimes, Mikio has to order outcall services to fulfill Saneo sexually, and he meets Marin (Chika Uchida) working as an underground idol in sex industry in Akihabara.
Marin had a dream of owning island of her own; she was saving money without having her apartment.
A producer Sakai who was gathering information on underground idols, finds out that Marin is a sex industry worker.
And Sakai raked over Saneo raped a little girl 10 years ago in a past, and he had been in a strange relationship with her.
Sakai set a documentary filming to meet the father of the victim and Saneo.
Mikio realized that he had been fleeing from the past crime which couldn't be eliminated. His relationship with Marin fell apart and the 3 became separated.
Could they meet again? Where does the dreamt ideal island exist?
Then small miracles happen to the 3 who believed in future and were moving along the new paths.

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Country(ies) : JAPAN


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