Snakes and Earrings
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- Movie: Snakes and Earrings
- Romaji: Hebi ni piasu
- Japanese: 蛇にピアス
- Director: Yukio Ninagawa
- Writer: Hitomi Kanehara (novel), Takuya Miyawaki
- Producer:
- Cinematography:
- Release Date: September 20, 2008
- Runtime: 123 min.
- Distributor: Gaga Communications
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Notes
Snakes and Earrings (Hebi ni piasu) is a based on the novel of the same name by then 21 year old writer Hitomi Kanehara. The novel went on to win the prestigious Akutagawa Prize and sold a million copies.
Plot
Lui is nineteen years old, beautiful, bored and unmotivated. When she meets Ama in a bar, she finds herself mesmerized by his forked tongue and moves in with him and has her own tongue pierced. Determined to push her boundaries further, she asks Amas friend Shiba to design an exquisite tattoo for her back. But what Shiba demands as payment for the tattoo leads Lui into a brutal and explicit love triangle like no other. Then, after a violent encounter on the backstreets of Tokyo, Ama vanishes and Lui must face up to the reality of her life.
Cast
- Yuriko Yoshitaka - Rui
- Kengo Kora - Ama
- Arata - Shiba
- Yu Abiru - Maki
- Sonim - Yuri
- Tatsuya Fujiwara - Yokoyama Satoru
- Shun Oguri - Yoshida Mitsuhiro
- Kamejiro Ichikawa
- Toshiaki Karasawa
- Rakkyo Ide
- Hidekazu Ichinose
- Shuto Ayabe - kid in store district
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Film Festivals
- 2008 (13th) Pusan International Film Festival - October 2nd-10th - A Window on Asian Cinema
- 2009 (8th) New York Asian Film Festival - June 19th-July 5th (North American Premiere)
Awards
- "Best Newcomer" (Yuriko Yoshitaka) - 2008 (51st) Blue Ribbon Awards - February 3, 2009
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