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Winner of Awards for Best Director and the Audience one in Tokyo this year, “(Ab)normal Desire” is a film that stays true to its title, as Yoshiyuki Kishi tries to present fetishes and the people who carry them as a normal part of society, even if society does not.
(Ab)normal Desire is screening at Toronto Japanese Film Festival
Based on the novel Seiyoku by Ryo Asai, the script follows the lives of a number of characters. Hiroki Terai is a prosecutor at the Yokohama Prosecutor's Office. He is married to Yumi and has a son who goes to elementary school, but has troubles adapting to school life. When he watches a video of a YouTuber influencer girl his age, who states how great she feels now that she is not attending school, he asks his father to do the same, but he turns him down without a second world,...
(Ab)normal Desire is screening at Toronto Japanese Film Festival
Based on the novel Seiyoku by Ryo Asai, the script follows the lives of a number of characters. Hiroki Terai is a prosecutor at the Yokohama Prosecutor's Office. He is married to Yumi and has a son who goes to elementary school, but has troubles adapting to school life. When he watches a video of a YouTuber influencer girl his age, who states how great she feels now that she is not attending school, he asks his father to do the same, but he turns him down without a second world,...
- 6/17/2024
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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Yoshiyuki Kishi has been working in the Japanese film and TV industry for many years, as a director of documentaries, producer as well as screenwriter. His first feature “A Double Life” was screened at many international film festivals and garnered him a lot of attention among critics and cinephiles alike. His feature “Wilderness” received awards at Japan Academy Film Prize, Asian Film Awards and Blue Ribbon Awards. His new feature “(Ab)normal Desire” also received awards at Toronto International Film Festival.
On the occasion of “(Ab)normal Desire” being screened at Nippon Connection 2024, Yoshiyuki Kishi talks about the themes of his feature, the visual approach and the amount of tolerance in Japanese society.
“(Ab)normal Desire” is the adaptation of a novel by Ryo Asai. What are differences between your film and the novel and what were the challenges in adapting this story for the screen?
The novel is set...
On the occasion of “(Ab)normal Desire” being screened at Nippon Connection 2024, Yoshiyuki Kishi talks about the themes of his feature, the visual approach and the amount of tolerance in Japanese society.
“(Ab)normal Desire” is the adaptation of a novel by Ryo Asai. What are differences between your film and the novel and what were the challenges in adapting this story for the screen?
The novel is set...
- 6/9/2024
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
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Following decades in television and film, including stints as a producer, screenwriter and documentary filmmaker, Yoshiyuki Kishi made his feature directorial debut in 2016, aged 52, with Double Life, attracting some international festival attention.
He returned the following year with the ambitious Wilderness, based on the only novel by Shuji Terayama. Released in two parts a few weeks apart in Japan, with a combined running time of more than five hours, Wilderness portrayed two very different social outcasts on their journey to becoming professional boxers, against the backdrop of a socially disintegrating Japan. It landed Masaki Suda best actor at the Japan Academy Awards, and Korea’s Yang Ik-june best supporting actor at the Asian Film Awards.
Kishi’s latest, (Ab)normal Desire, is almost certainly his most challenging and complex work to date. Selected in competition at this year’s Tokyo International Film Festival and starring Yui Aragaki, Goro Inagaki,...
He returned the following year with the ambitious Wilderness, based on the only novel by Shuji Terayama. Released in two parts a few weeks apart in Japan, with a combined running time of more than five hours, Wilderness portrayed two very different social outcasts on their journey to becoming professional boxers, against the backdrop of a socially disintegrating Japan. It landed Masaki Suda best actor at the Japan Academy Awards, and Korea’s Yang Ik-june best supporting actor at the Asian Film Awards.
Kishi’s latest, (Ab)normal Desire, is almost certainly his most challenging and complex work to date. Selected in competition at this year’s Tokyo International Film Festival and starring Yui Aragaki, Goro Inagaki,...
- 10/28/2023
- by Gavin J Blair
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Commercial feature film debut for cutting-edge director, Shun Nakagawa, based on stories by coming-of-age novel maestro, Ryo Asai. An emotive depiction of the two days before graduation for four high school girls in love.
Film Review: Sayonara, Girls (2022) by Nakagawa Shun
The story takes place in a provincial high school slated for demolition. Four girls saying farewell to their loves include basketball captain Yuki Goto (Rina Ono), who will leave her boyfriend to pursue her dreams. Manami Yamashiro (Yuumi Kawai) will deliver the farewell speech for their graduating class, but she is dealing with complex feelings of her own. (Source: Japanese Film Database)
This movie premiered at the Tokyo International Film Festival 2022 on October 26. Distributor, The Klockworx, has announced a Blu-ray and DVD combo release on August 2, 2023.
Film Review: Sayonara, Girls (2022) by Nakagawa Shun
The story takes place in a provincial high school slated for demolition. Four girls saying farewell to their loves include basketball captain Yuki Goto (Rina Ono), who will leave her boyfriend to pursue her dreams. Manami Yamashiro (Yuumi Kawai) will deliver the farewell speech for their graduating class, but she is dealing with complex feelings of her own. (Source: Japanese Film Database)
This movie premiered at the Tokyo International Film Festival 2022 on October 26. Distributor, The Klockworx, has announced a Blu-ray and DVD combo release on August 2, 2023.
- 6/2/2023
- by Suzie Cho
- AsianMoviePulse
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