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
- Kengo Kora
- Tatsuya Fujiwara
- Shun Oguri
- Toshiaki Karasawa
- Arata
- Rakkyo Ide
- Sonim
- Yu Abiru
- Kamejiro Ichikawa
- Hidekazu Ichinose
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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)
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fate Says:
Feb 04 2010 2:19 pm
omg who was who????? i really cant recognize them!!somebody help me?T___T
my Says:
Sep 01 2009 4:14 pm
they both were just cameo
cayu Says:
Jun 23 2009 7:11 am
I knOw .... ^_^
gOOd fiLm
n I love kEngO kOra
gambatte ....!
my Says:
Jun 17 2009 8:28 pm
Oguri was in this. @ 1:59 was Fujiwara and Oguri was the other "gangster" in there, he was just a cameo
Cdmc Says:
Apr 16 2009 5:11 pm
Oguri shun wasny in this tho
lee dong ki Says:
Apr 02 2009 1:40 am
good film.......