Completed - JAPANESE - Drama - 129 minutes
A teenager aspires to be “ordinary” and “normal” in this world of chaos. But after an incident that can never be erased from his life, his wish becomes something impossible to achieve, turning him into a person obsessed to sanction evil people in the society…
Year of production : 2011 Director(s) : Sion SONO Writer(s) : Sion SONO Cast : Shota SOMETANI, Fumi NIKAIDOU, Tetsu WATANABE, Mitsuru FUKIKOSHI, Megumi KAGURAZAKA, Ken MITSUISHI, Denden , Yosuke KUBOZUKA Producer(s) : Haruo UMEKAWA (STUDIO3), Masashi YAMAZAKI (GAGA Corporation)
The story of a boy and a girl who are confronted with a horrific personal reality against the backdrop of the devastation caused by this year’s earthquake in Japan. An adaptation of Minoru Furuya’s successful manga of the same name, Himizu is the latest film by Sion Sono, the Japanese master of extreme filmmaking.
Country(ies) : JAPAN
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La Biennale di Venezia - Venice FF 2011 - Competition (Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Young Actor or Actress)Toronto - TIFF 2011 Contemporary World Cinema