The Pinkie

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Nov. 15 (Sat.) 16:15

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This film, awarded twice at the 2014 Yuubari International Fantastic Film Festival, is the directorial debut by rising star Risa Takeha. In addition to the Grand Prix in Yuubari, the film was an entrant in the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). This inspirational film is finally coming to the theater!! Her intriguing premise of a boy cloned from a little finger lends the film a kitschy, poppy, occult sensibility propelled by romance and violence. The well-written story is full of surreal humor, cheeky dialogue, colorful images, and Harajuku quirkiness. A must see!

Momoko (Miwako Wagatsuma) is the ultimate hopeless romantic. She obsesses over her first love Ryosuke(Ryota Ozawa) though her affection is never requited. Ryosuke breaks off relations with Momoko because she accidentally burns down his house. Some years later, she accidentally stumbles upon his little finger and secretly creates his clone. She names the clone “Koyubi(Little finger)” and deepens their relations, but one day Ryosuke comes and takes away her clone, claiming the little finger originally belonged to him. He determines to get revenge agains a gangster who killed his ex-girlfriend Manami(Haruka Suenaga). Koyubi, knowing Momoko’s enduring love, tries to stop Ryosuke from confronting the gangsters…,

<Cast>
Ryota Ozawa
Miwako Agatsuma
Haruka Suenaga
Reon Kadena
Takeshi Nishina
Kadohito Yamagishi
Tokitoshi Shiota
Kanji Tsuda

Director: Lisa Takeba
Creative producer: Shu Kageyama
Theme song: “Young love” by Andersons

Music: Kentaro Fujinaga
Camera operator: Shinji Kugimiya
Sound recording: Masahito Komaki
Sound designer: Fumihito Hirama
Electrician:Shuji Sugimoto
Film Editor: Shu Kageyama
Production designer: Mariko Katagiri
Animatior: Masatoku Numaguchi
Costume Designer: Midori Masuda
Makeup artist: Misa Motoki
Distributer: S・D・P

Japan 2014
Language: Japanese
63 min.

Director

Lisa Takeba
Born in 1983 and based in Tokyo, Lisa’s short film “The World Most Beautiful Dictionary” (2011) was invited to Yubari Int’l Fantastic FF, Soho Film Festival in NY, and Washington Euro Asia Short Film Festival. Her other work “The Wandering Alien Detective Robin”(2012) was invited to Rotterdam International Film Festival and Asian Pacific Film Festival. She is also a TV commercial director, music video director and a Nintendo DS game scriptwriter.
Her newest film“The Pinkie”prized Grand Prix and Cinegar Award Prize at the Yubari Int’l Fantastic FF. That was also invited to several International Film Festivals.

Filmography
2008 Story of Flower Throat Man(short film)
2009 Summer Bookmobile(short film)
2011 The World's Most Beautiful Dictionary(short film)
2012 Please Die 100 times(short film)
2012 Wandering Alien Ditective Robin(short film)
2014 The Pinkie