Touching the Skin of Eeriness

Screening Schedule

Nov. 22 (Sun.) 19:45

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Details

After the death of his father, Chihiro (Shota Sometani) goes to live with older half-brother Togo (Kiyohiko Shibukawa). Although Togo and his girlfriend Satomi (Natsumi Seto) warmly take him in, Chihiro's loneliness still lingers, and he becomes engrossed in practicing modern dance with classmate Naoya (Hoshi Ishida). However, disturbing events soon start to take place in the town where the two so innocently dance...

<Cast>
Directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Cast: Shota Sometani, Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Hoshi Ishida, Natsumi Seto, Jun Murakami, Aoba Kawai, Ayumi Mizukoshi
Written by : Tomoyuki Takahashi
Cinematography : Yasuyuki Sasaki
Choreography: Osamu Jareo
Music : Hiroyuki Nagashima
Produced by : LOAD SHOW, fictive
Producer : Gou Kitahara, Hideyuki Okamoto, Ryusuke Hamaguchi

<Filmmakers>
Year of production: 2013
Running time : 54 min
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese

Director

HAMAGUCHI Ryusuke
Born in 1978. After graduating from the University of Tokyo with a Bachelor of Art in Aesthetics in March 2003, he had been working as an assistant directors for film and TV industry for three years. Then, Hamaguchi has studied at the Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts and got the degree of Master of Film in March, 2008. Passion, his graduation film, was selected at San Sebastian in 2008 while the Japan/Korea coproduction film The Depths (2010) was screened at TOKYO FILMeX. He then co-directed the series of documentaries Tôhoku Documentary Trilogy with Kô Sakai from 2011 to 2013 before directing two fiction features, Intimacies (2012) and Touching the Skin of Eeriness (2013). He is now based in Kobe and HAPPY HOUR is his first feature fiction in 3 years.