Twinkle

Kira kira hikaru, feature film, 1992

DIRECTED BY: Joji Matsuoka


CAST:
Hiroko Yakushimaru,
Etsushi Toyokawa,
Michitaka Tsutsui

SCRIPT:
Joji Matsuoka (prema romanu Kaori Eguni)

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