Part of the 2022 season: What Lies Beneath
Life: Untitled
Title kyozetsu, タイトル、拒絶
Director YAMADA Kana
Cast ITOH Sairi, TSUNEMATSU Yuri, KATAOKA Reiko
UK Premiere, 2019, 98 min, English Subtitles
In the ramshackle office of one of Tokyo’s inconspicuous, low-rent escort services, the lives of the call girls waiting for their next client intersect and are laid bare in all their day-to-day humdrum, with visits to local love hotels, and the inevitable rivalries and catfights. Kano (ITOH Sairi), who acts as a caretaker for the girls, tries her best to defuse any potential drama, but their already tenuous peace is thrown into disarray when a new girl with model proportions joins the force, and the hierarchy among the girls shifts, creating a new slew of issues.
This feature film debut from YAMADA Kana (head of the ROJI9 theatre company) is an adaptation of a stage play she penned herself. Rather than exploiting the stereotypes often attached to the sex industry, YAMADA offers a more humanistic view of the lives of these women trying to make a living as best they know how.
Past screenings
- Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) Friday 4 February, 20:50
- Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) Tuesday 8 February, 20:55
- Eden Court Thursday 10 February, 18:00
- HOME Tuesday 15 February, 18:15
- Phoenix, Leicester Tuesday 22 February, 15:00
- Tyneside Cinema Monday 28 February, 18:30
- Warwick Arts Centre Wednesday 2 March, 20:30
- QUAD Saturday 5 March, 18:00
- Chapter Arts Centre Sunday 6 March, 18:25
- Brewery Arts Cinema Wednesday 9 March, 20:30
- Exeter Phoenix Wednesday 16 March, 18:00
- Filmhouse Monday 21 March, 18:00
- Cinema City Monday 21 March, 18:00
- Macrobert Arts Centre Wednesday 23 March, 19:45
- Plymouth Arts Cinema Tuesday 29 March, 18:00
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All films in this season
- Aristocrats
- Ora, Ora Be Goin' Alone
- Tomorrow’s Dinner Table
- colorless
- The Hunter’s Diary
- Iwane: Sword of Serenity
- Liar x Liar
- Spaghetti Code Love
- Blue
- The House of the Lost on the Cape
- Shrieking in the Rain
- The Sound of Grass
- The Voice of Sin
- THE CONFIDENCE MAN JP -The Movie-
- Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction
- The Lone Ume Tree
- First Love
- Will I Be Single Forever?
- Life: Untitled
- Eternally Younger Than Those Idiots