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Completed - JAPANESE - Thriller - 108 minutes

Log Line

You can't choose your mother but you can choose your victim.

Previous markets

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

Year of production : 2010

Director(s) : Naoki HASHIMOTO
Writer(s) : Kiyotaka INAGAKI, Naoki HASHIMOTO
Cast : Miyu YAGYU, Ryoko TAKIZAWA, Sayoko OHO

Producer(s) : Motoo KAWABATA, Naoki HASHIMOTO, Yoshinori KANO

Synopsis

Ayano, an energetic teen, is intercepted by an unknown face wearing an unsuspecting school uniform on her walk to class. This young girl, tells Ayano that a guy friend of hers thinks Ayano is super cute. Naturally, the bubbly Ayano can't help but want to join her in cutting class to go meet this cute guy. While waiting for Ayano's secret admirer to return to what Ayano is lead to believe is the boy's car, she becomes quickly overpowered by the older girl, blindfolded and bound to the seat. Ayano awakes in a locked basement with her kidnapper who now will not mutter even a sound to her, let alone explain why she is to be starved of food and water till death. However, Ayano's distraught family is soon to learn that their daughter's kidnapping is the result of her mother's doing and that this girl has spent her entire existence studying the way to make Ayano and her family suffer.

Production

Country(ies) : JAPAN

Festivals and Awards

Tallinn Black Nights IFF 2010 EurAsia


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