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Himizu (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Japanese ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Japanese ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
129 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Alternative Footage
Anamorphic Widescreen
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Deleted Scenes
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2011 and produced in:
Japan ( India, Eastern Asia )

Directed By:
Shion Sono

Written By:
Minoru Furuya
Shion Sono

Actors:
Shôta Sometani ..... Yuichi
Fumi Nikaidô ..... Keiko
Tetsu Watanabe ..... Shozo
Mitsuru Fukikoshi ..... Keita tamura
Megumi Kagurazaka ..... Keiko tamura
Ken Mitsuishi ..... Sumida's father
Makiko Watanabe ..... Sumida's mother
Asuka Kurosawa ..... Kaneko
Denden ..... Tanimura
Jun Murakami ..... Teruhiko
Yôsuke Kubozuka ..... Miki
Yuriko Yoshitaka ..... You
Takahiro Nishijima ..... Waitress
Anne Suzuki
Yûko Genkaku

Synopsis:

Sumida (Shometani) and his schoolmate Keiko (Nikaido) are 15 year old school kids living a dystopian existence where each of their parents hope and encourage them to die. Set in tsunami-hit areas of Japan, which are used as a backdrop, the story follows roughly that of the manga of the same name. "Don't give up." The constant refrain repeated in radio and television programmes to a nation hit by the merciless catastrophe sounds even more ominous when written in a note left by Yuichi Sumida's mother after running off with her lover. At fifteen, Sumida (Shôta Sometani) is left alone to manage the family's languishing boat-rental business and fend off his drunk and penniless father's bouts of violence. Sumida sees his simple dream for an ordinary future rapidly evapo¬rating before his eyes. Sharing similarly humble but fading dreams is his classmate Keiko Chazawa (Fumi Nikaidou), who also happens to have a major crush on him, even though Sumida seems deeply annoyed by her presence. Sumida fights frequently with his father, is abandoned by his mother and tends to reject friendly advances of others. Real violence enters Sumida's life when his drunken father goes too far in taunting him. Shocked by the crime he has committed, and the fact he'll never be able to lead the "ordinary" life he planned on, Sumida paints his face and stalks the city streets with a kitchen knife, crazily determined to make amends to society by killing wrong-doers.

Sumida and his schoolmate Keiko are 14 year old school kids living a dystopian existence where each of their parents' hopes and encourages them to die. Set in tsunami-hit areas of Japan about May 2011, which is used as a backdrop, the story follows roughly that of the manga of the same name wherein Sumida fights frequently with his father, is abandoned by his mother and tends to reject friendly advances of others. Eventually, he kills his father and then, assuming his life is ruined, attempts to improve society by killing 'bad' people. Although not immediately obvious, what instead happens is that he attacks psychotic and violent characters, while he instead learns from Keiko and the Yakuza and people who befriended him that he himself has become 'sick', eventually breaking free of the cycle of violence, but without a complete resolution of the issues raised during the movie before its end.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 06 October, 2012.