Japan / 2016 / 116 min. / Director: UCHIDA Nobuteru
Noboru, who lives in a forest on the outskirts of Tokyo, spends his days writing calligraphy inspired by his resentments toward various people, and sticking them onto his tent. One day, he meets a woman named Kifuyu who is being forced to participate in a honey trap scam, and abducts her with the intention of saving her from her predicament. Noboru demands a ransom from Kifuyu’s boyfriend Shigehisa, but he does not comply. Fearing abandonment, Kifuyu returns to Shigehisa, but when she sees him using another woman in his honey trap scam, she flies into a rage and stabs him. Noboru witnesses this and falsely tells Kifuyu that Shigehisa has died, then plots an escape from Japan with her... The latest film from UCHIDA Nobuteru, whose “Love Addiction” won the TOKYO FILMeX Grand Prize in 2010. This powerful work explores UCHIDA’s common theme of dependence on others, to an extreme extent.
