A Kabukicho gigolo with a gambling debt Mikio Osawa agrees to bump off a rich wife’s husband for a bundle of cash, but botches the hit. On the run in the snow-covered hills of northern Japan, he holes up in a shuttered, deserted house. But the house is not empty: a timid, traumatized girl Mika Ito lives there, in the thrall of a sick, hot-tempered trucker Shiro Sano who has kept her there since she was a tiny girl. Osawa tries hard but looks out of his depth here, as veteran Sano and 23-year-old ingénue Ito build an all-too-believable, monstrous relationship as sadistic paternal pervert and terrified tremulous child. File under guilty pleasure. |
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Ratings: | IMDB: 5.6/10 | |
Released: | September 18, 2004 | |
Runtime: | 99 min | |
Genres: | Drama | |
Companies: | Sedic International Art Port Inc | |
Cast: | Renji Ishibashi Shirô Sano Mikio Ohsawa Mika Itô | |
Crew: | Masao Adachi Kôji Wakamatsu Kazuhito Kubodera Michiko Matsuda | |
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