Crystal Globe Competition 2024 / Ai ni ranbou / Japan 2024
An unsettling drama about a marriage which is steadily losing its spark. Momoko (Noriko Eguchi) leads a respectable life as a housewife. She dresses elegantly and ensures that the apartment looks just right, down to the last detail; she attends to her husband assiduously and goes to great lengths to cook him proper Japanese food. Are these expressions of love, or rather paranoia from the emotional chasm that has opened out between them? And when does devoted care become an obsession? A psychologically precise case history of a spent relationship, in which long suppressed pain has risen to the surface. A film that examines the dark corners of human frustration and hysteria, where the desire to create something good develops into the urge to destroy.
Martin Horyna
105 min / Color, DCP
World premiere
Director Yukihiro Morigaki
/ Screenplay Yukihiro Morigaki, Sahoko Yamazaki, Ayako Suzuki na motivy novely / based on the novel by Shuichi Yoshida
/ Dir. of Photography Toyotaro Shigemori
/ Music Taro Iwashiro
/ Sound Masayuki Inomata
/ Editor Kenichi Hirai
/ Art Director Keiko Matsunaga
/ Producer Rampei Yokoyama, Takuma Yoshida
/ Production Tokyo Theatres Co., Inc., Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation
/ Cast Noriko Eguchi, Kotaro Koizumi, Jun Fubuki, Fumika Baba
/ Sales Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation
Yukihiro Morigaki (1983, Hiroshima, Japan). Selected filmography: Goodbye, Grandpa! (Ojiichan, shinjattatte, 2017), The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window (Sankaku mado no sotogawa wa yoru, 2021), Rude to Love (Ai ni ranbou, 2024).
Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation
20F NTV Tower, 1-6-1 Higashi Shimbashi, 105-7420, Tokyo
Japan
E-mail: [email protected]
Yukihiro Morigaki
Film Director
Takuma Yoshida
Producer
Rampei Yokoyama
Producer
Takamasa Araki
Assistant Director
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