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2014

Kami no tsuki

Pale Moon

紙の月

(c)2014 "Pale Moon" Film Partners

(c)2014 "Pale Moon" Film Partners

(c)2014 "Pale Moon" Film Partners

(c)2014 "Pale Moon" Film Partners

Release Date
November, 15th, 2014
Running Time
126 min
Genre
Mystery , Feature
Color
Color
Screening Format
DCP,HDCAM
Screening Format with Subtitles
English (DCP, HDCAM)

[ Directed by ]

[ Produced by ]

[ Cast ]

[ Staff ]

[ Production Company ]

"Pale Moon" Film Partners

[ Distributor (Japan) ]

SHOCHIKU

[ Production Studio ]

ROBOT

[ Story ]

An adaptation of popular author Kakuta Mitsuyo's eponymous novel by The Kirishima Thing director Yoshida Daihachi. It depicts the downfall of a housewife who falls head over heels in love and into a life of crime. Miyazawa Rie, starring in her first film in seven years, convincingly plays the protagonist who plummets toward her own destruction.
Wakaba Bank contract employee Rika (Miyazawa) meets university student Kota (Ikematsu Sosuke) at a client's home. Unknown to her husband Masafumi (Tanabe Seiichi), she engages in secret rendezvous with Kota, and begins to embezzle money from her clients' accounts to buy expensive cosmetics and pay off Kota's debt.

[ Official Site ]

http://www.kaminotsuki.jp

[ Film Festivals, Awards ]

2014 Tokyo International Film Festival, Competition, Best Actress Award, Audience Award
2014 Torino Film Festival
2014 Japanese Film Festival in Australia

[ Contact (International) ]

For further contact details, please contact UNIJAPAN -> [ Contact ]

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