River's Edge
2018 · Movie · 118 min. · Japan
Tokyo, 1994. In a video interview a young woman discusses the significance of a teddy bear. Shortly afterwards, a burning object falls from a high-rise building at night. A young man, naked and bound, falls out of a locker. Two fisherman talk about a water spirit. Ichiro is gay; he is preyed upon by his violent fellow pupils but seems to draw strength from his injuries. He makes a gruesome discovery at a nearby river polluted by industrial waste and shows it to his best friend, a girl named Haruna. Kannonzaki loves rough sex and in the course of it transgresses more and more boundaries. An introverted girl obsessively reads her pregnant sister’s diaries and Kozue, a model with bulimia, buries herself in mountains of food at night.
Direction Isao Yukisada
Cast Fumi Nikaidou · Ryô Yoshizawa · Sumire Matsubara · Aoi Morikawa · Shûhei Uesugi · Shiori Doi · Jin Shirasu
Soundtrack Hiroko Sebu
Screenplay Misaki Setoyama · Kyôko Okazaki
Cinematography Kenji Maki
Original title Ribâzu Ejji
Also known as River's Edge
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