The Kiss

Seppun

Japan

2007

108 Min

Color

Japanese

Currently 3.0/5 Stars.
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SCR Kunitoshi Manda, Tamami Manda

CAST Eiko Koike, Etsushi Toyokawa, Tôru Nakamura, Saburo Shinoda, Kôzô Satô

Sakaguchi, a chilling, unrepentant murderer; Kyoko, a lonely obsessive woman; Hasegawa, Sakaguchi’s frustrated defence lawyer. So forms the basis of the bizarre love triangle in this tense crime thriller. Kyoko instantly connects with Sakaguchi after he flashes a disturbing smile on camera – it is love at first sight. Only she can find the true motives behind the killings, but Sakaguchi’s been given the death penalty. Is it too late? —The Australia-Japan Student Film Forum (AJSFF)

Director

Kunitoshi Manda

MANDA Kunitoshi, born in 1956 in Tokyo, directed several 8mm films while studying at Rikkyo University. At the university he met KUROSAWA Kiyoshi. After school, he worked as a screenwriter and assistant director on KUROSAWA Kiyoshi’s “Kandagawa War”(1983) and “Excitement of the Do-Re-Mi-Fa Girl”(1985). He also directed television dramas and industrial videos and has written film critiques for journals such as the Japanese monthly Image Forum. In 1996, he made a 40-minute feature “Spaceship Remnant 6,” a film in the J MovieWar 3 series produced by SENTO Takenori. In 1999, under his writer’s name MANDA Kunimi, he co-authored the script with Sento for NAGASAKI Shunichi’s “Shikoku.” “UNLOVED” is his first full-length feature film. —medialuna-entertainment.de