Part of the 2019 season: People Still Call It Love
Yurigokoro
Director Naoto Kumazawa
Cast
Cast: Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Tôri Matsuzaka
©Mahokaru Numata / Futabasha ©2017 “Yurigokoro” Film Partners
(Yurigokoro, ユリゴコロ)
UK Premiere
Everything seems perfect in the life of aspiring restaurateur, Ryosuke (Tôri Matsuzaka); his business is thriving and he is about to be married to his beautiful fiancée. Yet, his existence begins to unravel when his father is diagnosed with late-stage pancreatic cancer. While going through his father’s belongings, Ryosuke discovers a diary and within its pages he reads a seemingly incriminating entry: “Without remorse, I take a life…” Is the passage a fictional account or the biographical memoir of a murderer? His world upended, it seems like things can’t get much worse for Ryosuke – just then, his fiancée vanishes.
With a stellar cast, this devastating love story is an adaptation of Mahokaru Numata’s mystery novel, Nan-Core, which sold over 250,000 copies worldwide.
沼田まほかるの同名ミステリーを映画化。ユリゴコロとは、人が生きていく上で欠かせない、誰もが持つ「心の拠りどころ」のこと。美紗子にとって、それは死を味わうことでしか感じられなかった。そんな美紗子の手記を偶然発見した亮介は、避けることのできない運命に翻弄されていく。(Japanese synopsis by Eikoku News Digest)
2017/128 min/English Subtitles
Past screenings
- Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) Tuesday 5 February, 20:30
- QUAD Sunday 10 February, 21:00
- Showroom Cinema Tuesday 19 February, 17:45
- Depot Wednesday 20 February, 20:15
- HOME Saturday 23 February, 17:40
- Watershed Sunday 24 February, 13:40
- Filmhouse Saturday 16 March, 20:20
All films in this season
My Friend ‘A’
Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura
Thicker Than Water
Dear Etranger
Dad's Lunch Box
Yurigokoro
Born Bone Born
The Scythian Lamb
Three Stories of Love
Good Stripes
Pumpkin and Mayonnaise
Her Love Boils Bathwater
Penguin Highway
Where Chimneys Are Seen
Tremble All You Want
Tonight, at the Movies
Of Love & Law
Blindly In Love