The thirty seventh Tokyo Worldwide Movie Pageant (TIFF) introduced in a press convention on Wednesday that the live-action film of Yoshiharu Tsuge‘s “Ame no Naka no Yokujō” (Lust within the Rain) manga brief story will display within the competition’s competitors class on October 30, November 3, and November 4.
The movie will display in theaters in Japan on November 29.
The movie stars Ryō Narita as Yoshio, Eriko Nakamura as Fukuko, Gō Morita as Imori, and Naoto Takenaka as Oyaji. Different solid members embrace Tomomitsu Adachi, Yuki Nakanishi, Yūya Matsuura, Makoto Tsuchi, Kaori Momo, and Kū Ijima, and Li Xing. Shinzo Katayama is directing the movie, and can be penning the script alongside Takamase Ōe.
The movie’s story facilities on Yoshio, a poor and struggling manga artist who lives in Kitamachi. He’s despatched by Oyaji, the owner of his residence who can be engaged in different shady companies, to assist a novelist referred to as Imori transfer in, and meets a recently-divorced lady named Fukuko. Yoshio is instantly bewitched by her magnificence, regardless that she is already seeing another person. Within the meantime, Imori establishes an promoting company, borrowing the identify of a bigger company from the wealthier Minamicho, with a view to promote his novel. Yoshio finally ends up serving to with Imori’s efforts, and one way or the other Imori and Fukuko come to reside along with Yoshio.
Tsuge revealed the brief manga in Hokutoh Shoboh‘s Yagyō journal in 1981.
Tsuge was a pioneer of gekiga (“dramatic footage”) comics, a style named by Yoshihiro Tatsumi in 1957 to explain an alternate type of manga that stresses realism and is geared toward adults. He’s maybe greatest identified for his 1968 manga Neji-Shiki (“Screw-Style“), a surreal story a couple of man wandering a desolate, post-war Japan.
Teruo Ishii directed a live-action movie adaptation of Neji-Shiki in 1998. Panik Home released the movie in North America beneath the title Screwed.
Drawn & Quarterly is releasing the whole works of Yoshiharu Tsuge in a seven-volume set. Ryan Holmberg is translating the works.
The thirty seventh Tokyo Worldwide Movie Pageant will run from October 28 to November 6.
The competition’s “Gala Choice” consists of the screening of the live-action film of Masayuki Kusumi and Jiro Taniguchi‘s Kodoku no Gourmet (Solitary Connoisseur). The competition lists the movie’s title as The Gourmand: The Solitary Connoisseur.
The competition’s “Animation Choice” will display movies akin to A Few Moments of Cheers, The Colors Within, Ghost Cat Anzu, Look Back, Make a Girl, Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window, Kurayukaba, and a fiftieth anniversary 4K remaster screening of Space Battleship Yamato, amongst others.
Supply: thirty seventh Tokyo Worldwide Movie Pageant press convention (Egan Loo)
