Release Date

September, 23rd, 2006

Running Time

127 min

Genre

Feature

Color

Color

Screening Format

35mm

Screen Size

-

Sound Processing

-

[ Directed by ]

• YAZAKI Hitoshi

[ Produced by ]

• ASAI Takashi

[ Cast ]

• IKEWAKI Chizuru ── Satoko
• NAKAGOSHI Noriko ── Chihiro
• NAKAMURA Yuko ── Akiyo
• IWASE Toko ── Toko

[ Staff ]

• NANANAN Kiriko ── Original Story
• INUKAI Kyoko ── Screenplay
• ISHII Isao ── Director of Photography
• TADA Naruo ── Editor
• miroque ── Music
• mount suger ── Music
• MATSUMOTO Chie ── Production Design

[ Production Company ]

UPLINK

[ Story ]

A human drama that frankly depicts the hurt and confused lives of four emotionally different women in their twenties. Based on a comic book of the same title by Nananan Kiriko. Directed by Yazaki Hitoshi of March Comes in Like a Lion (Sangatsu no Raion).
Satoko (Ikewaki Chizuru), who works at a "delivery health shop" (a euphemistic term for an escort agency) on phone duty, eagerly awaits the arrival of a new love. Akiyo (Nakamura Yuko), a delivery health girl (i.e. a call girl) who works at the same place as Satoko, loves her classmate, Kikuchi (Ando Masanobu), but is unable to tell him. A beautiful office worker, Chihiro (Nakagoshi Noriko), shares a room with proud illustrator, Toko (Iwase Toko). Chihiro is distressed that her relationships with her boyfriends end due to her strong desire to marry, and Toko is troubled by her binge eating disorder caused by excessive pressure and the trauma of a broken heart. One day, these four women decide to confront their problems head-on. Though knocked down by reality, they stand up again to begin living their life positively.

[ Film Festivals, Awards ]

International Film Festival Rotterdam 2007

[ Contact (International) ]

UPLINK Co.
4F, 37-18 Udagawacho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0042
Rep: ASAI Takashi
Attn: SUMII Naoko
tel: +81 3 6821 6821
fax: +81 3 3485 8785
E-mail: film@uplink.co.jp
http://www.uplink.co.jp