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Completed - JAPANESE - 118 minutes

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  • FILMART 2018 (Line up)
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Year of production : 2018

Director(s) : Isao YUKISADA

Synopsis

After Haruna (Fumi Nikaido) saves him from her bullying boyfriend Kannonzaki (Shūhei Uesugi), Yamada (Ryō Yoshizawa) invites her to the riverside at night and shows her an abandoned dead body. She is lost for words when Yamada says "Seeing this gives me courage." A younger student and model Kozue (SUMIRE), who also sees this dead body as a treasure, turns up, and the three of them become bound in a peculiar friendship which will never turn into romance. Yamada hides his homosexuality and sells his body downtown. Kanna (Aoi Morikawa) has a violent passion for Yamada. Kannonzaki cannot hold back his violent impulses. Kozue is bulimic; Rumi (Shiori Doi) is Haruna's friend but sleeps with Kannonzaki. One day, Yamada tells her that he's found another body…

Production

Country(ies) : JAPAN

Festivals and Awards

Karlovy Vary IFF 2018 Horizons
Berlinale - EFM 2018


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