Tetsuo is a lowlife. As a filmmaker, he had an indie hit many years back. One day, two new students come to his school: Minami, a naive girl wishing to be an actress, and Ken, a scriptwriter. Tetsuo thinks Minami could be a real star, and Ken has a brilliant script that could relaunch his career.

A darkly comic look at Japan’s low-budget filmmaking scene, but also a sharp study of human failure and artistic integrity, Lowlife Love is a fearless extravaganza about the ambitious but tormented career of a movie director. Shot in a mere 8 days!