Part of the 2022 season: What Lies Beneath
Shrieking in the Rain
Ame ni sakebe ba, 雨に叫べば
Director UCHIDA Eiji
Cast MATSUMOTO Marika, OYAMA Maeko, MOTOLA Serena
UK Premiere, 2021, 102 min, English Subtitles
First time director HAYASHI Hanako (MATSUMOTO Marika) has fought tooth and nail to land her debut feature film gig. Now on the studio set in the summer of 1988 and trying her best to realise her artistic vision without compromises, she is besieged by problems from all sides as she approaches the shooting of the film’s climatic love scene, which is heavy in eroticism. A subpar script and a melodramatic cast are the least of her worries as Hanako must also contend with problems such as challenges to her authority arising from her primarily male crew, finance-oriented producers, and the dreaded visit of a Film Certification Committee officer who’s looking to cut scenes from the film to avoid an R rating. Can she fight against them all?
Prolific director UCHIDA Eiji’s eighties nostalgia and behind-the-scenes look at the pressures of a professional film studio is a realistic picture of the Japanese film industry of that decade, and is both entertaining and thought-provoking.
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Past screenings
- Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) Sunday 6 February, 20:45
- Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) Sunday 13 February, 13:00
- Watershed Tuesday 22 February, 15:00
- Queen's Film Theatre Sunday 27 February, 15:00
- QUAD Saturday 5 March, 20:15
- Belmont Filmhouse Saturday 12 March, 15:15
- Macrobert Arts Centre Monday 28 March, 19:45
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- 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