CYCLE: DIRECTOR

From 18.04. To 09.05.2005.

Program of Japanese contemporary films

Joji Matsuoka

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Matsuoka (1961) is a director, originally from Japan. She made films such as Bataashi kingyo (Swimming Upstream, 1990), Kira kira hikaru (Twinkle, 1992), Toire no Hanako-san (School Mystery, 1995), Watashitachi ga suki datta koto (1997), Beru epokku (1998), Akashia no michi (2001) and Sayônara Kuro (2003).

Filmography

Films by this director

Twinkle

(Kira kira hikaru, 1992)

Directed by: Joji Matsuoka

PHOTOGRAPHY: Norimichi Kasamatsu

Synopsis:

Shoko (Hiroko Yakushimaru) is a twenty-seven-year-old translator. She is emotionally unstable and prone to drinking. Mutsuki (Etsushi Toyokawa) is a thirty-year-old doctor and a homosexual. He wants to break up with the student Kono (Michitaka Tsutsui). Shoko and Mutsuki meet for the first time at a so-called omiai, a meeting in order to arrange a marriage. Shoko and Mutsuki are convinced that their “abnormality” is what connects them and hope for their marriage to succeed.

color, 98 minuta

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