Release Date

September, 11th, 2010

Running Time

139 min

Genre

Drama , Feature

Color

Color

Screening Format

35mm

Screen Size

American Vista (1:1.85)

Sound Processing

Dolby Digital

[ Directed by ]

• LEE Sang-il

[ Produced by ]

• NIHIRA Tomoyo
• KAWAMURA Genki

[ Cast ]

• TSUMABUKI Satoshi ── SHIMIZU Yuichi
• FUKATSU Eri ── MAGOME Mitsuyo
• OKADA Masaki ── MASUO Keigo

[ Staff ]

• LEE Sang-il ── Screenplay
• YOSHIDA Shuichi ── Screenplay
• YOSHIDA Shuichi ── Original Story
• HISAISHI Joe ── Music
• FUKUHARA Miho ── Theme Song

[ Production Company ]

TOHO, DENTSU, THE ASAHI SHIMBUN COMPANY, SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT (JAPAN), NIPPON SHUPPAN HANBAI, HORIPRO, Amuse, KDDI, Yahoo! Japan, TSUTAYA Group, Asahi Shimbun Publications

[ Distributor (Japan) ]

TOHO

[ Production Studio ]

TOHO

[ Story ]

A gritty social critique, this drama is directed by Lee Sang-il, director of the multi-award winning Hula Girls. Fukatsu Eri, who won the Best Actress Award at the Montreal World Film Festival for her role, takes on challenging and heated love scenes, playing a woman on the run with a murderer. Yuichi (Tsumabuki Satoshi) runs away after killing a woman (Mitsushima Hikari) he met on a dating website. He then meets Mitsuyo (Fukatsu), a sales clerk, . While the families of the victim and the assailant are left in agony, Mitsuyo becomes increasingly entangled in her relationship with Yuichi.

[ Official Site ]

http://www.akunin.jp/

[ Film Festivals, Awards ]

The World Film Festival Montreal 2010 Best Actress

[ Contact (International) ]

TOHO CO., LTD.
International Business Department
1-2-2 Yurakucho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8415
Rep: SHIMATANI Yoshishige
tel: +81 3 3591 3530
fax: +81 3 3591 6610
E-mail: tohointl@toho.co.jp
http://www.toho.co.jp