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Mayû Kusakari
The official website for Shunichi Nagasaki’s Shojotachi no Rashinban has been relaunched with a new trailer.
Based on an award-winning mystery novel by Hiromi Mizuki, the film involves an up-and-coming young actress who returns to her hometown for a film shoot. Although she doesn’t mention it to anyone, her director (Ken Maeda) knows that she was a member of the legendary theater troupe “Rashinban” (compass) back in her high school years.
Four years earlier, Rumi (Riko Narumi), Ririko (Ayaka Morita), and Kaname (Mayuu Kusakari) invited a girl from a different school, Ran (Shiori Kutsuna), into their new theater group. Eventually, one member winds up dead, but the person responsible had set up the perfect alibi.
In the present day, the actress is presented with shocking evidence as the details of what seemed like the perfect crime are slowly revealed and a plan for revenge is enacted.
“Shojotachi no...
Based on an award-winning mystery novel by Hiromi Mizuki, the film involves an up-and-coming young actress who returns to her hometown for a film shoot. Although she doesn’t mention it to anyone, her director (Ken Maeda) knows that she was a member of the legendary theater troupe “Rashinban” (compass) back in her high school years.
Four years earlier, Rumi (Riko Narumi), Ririko (Ayaka Morita), and Kaname (Mayuu Kusakari) invited a girl from a different school, Ran (Shiori Kutsuna), into their new theater group. Eventually, one member winds up dead, but the person responsible had set up the perfect alibi.
In the present day, the actress is presented with shocking evidence as the details of what seemed like the perfect crime are slowly revealed and a plan for revenge is enacted.
“Shojotachi no...
- 08/03/2011
- Nippon Cinema
[Our thanks go out to Chris MaGee and Marc Saint-Cyr at the Toronto J-Film Pow-Wow for sharing their coverage of the 2010 Nippon Connection Film Festival.]
In 2005 director Toshiaki Toyoda was poised to take his career to the next level. At that point only 35-years-old Toyoda had already gained a reputation as one of Japan's most promising filmmakers. Throughout films like "Pornostar (a.k.a. "Tokyo Rampage")", the Taiyo Matsumoto manga adaptation "Blue Spring", and the masterful ensemble prison break film "9 Souls" he showed that he could combine tongue-in-cheek comedy with brutal drama, but by mid-decade he was ready to release a film that would place him alongside the likes of international festival favorites Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Hirokazu Kore-eda. "Hanging Garden" was an unblinking look at the disintegration of the Japanese family starring Kyoko Kozumi and Itsuji Itao as parents who demand 100% honesty from each other and their children, but who end up holding damaging secrets from each other. Not since Yoshimitsu Morita's "The Family Game" had a filmmaker presented such a damning llok at the core of Japanse society.
In 2005 director Toshiaki Toyoda was poised to take his career to the next level. At that point only 35-years-old Toyoda had already gained a reputation as one of Japan's most promising filmmakers. Throughout films like "Pornostar (a.k.a. "Tokyo Rampage")", the Taiyo Matsumoto manga adaptation "Blue Spring", and the masterful ensemble prison break film "9 Souls" he showed that he could combine tongue-in-cheek comedy with brutal drama, but by mid-decade he was ready to release a film that would place him alongside the likes of international festival favorites Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Hirokazu Kore-eda. "Hanging Garden" was an unblinking look at the disintegration of the Japanese family starring Kyoko Kozumi and Itsuji Itao as parents who demand 100% honesty from each other and their children, but who end up holding damaging secrets from each other. Not since Yoshimitsu Morita's "The Family Game" had a filmmaker presented such a damning llok at the core of Japanse society.
- 17/04/2010
- Screen Anarchy
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