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Overview

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Director:
Shinya Tsukamoto
Writer:
Shinya Tsukamoto (writer)
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Release Date:
13 June 2003 (UK) more
Genre:
Drama | Mystery more
Tagline:
Issho ni, jigoku ni ikimashô
Plot:
A man and woman fall into an erotic nightmare when they are stalked by a disturbed man. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
5 wins & 2 nominations more
User Comments:
Life Is to Be Lived in Its Plenitude more (24 total)

Cast

  (in credits order)
Asuka Kurosawa ... Rinko Tatsumi
Yuji Kohtari ... Shigehiko (as Yuji Koutari)
Shinya Tsukamoto ... Iguchi
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mansaku Fuwa
Tomoko Matsumoto
Shûji Ôtsuki
Ikko Suzuki
Tomorowo Taguchi
Susumu Terajima
Masato Tsujioka
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Directed by
Shinya Tsukamoto 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Shinya Tsukamoto  writer

Produced by
Shin-Ichi Kawahara .... associate producer
Shinya Tsukamoto .... producer
 
Original Music by
Chu Ishikawa 
 
Cinematography by
Shinya Tsukamoto 
 
Film Editing by
Shinya Tsukamoto 
 
Production Design by
Shinya Tsukamoto 
 
Costume Design by
Hiroko Iwasaki 
 
Makeup Department
Takashi Oda .... special makeup effects artist
 
Special Effects by
Takashi Oda .... dummy effects
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
A Snake of June (Canada: English title) (International: English title)
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MPAA:
Rated R for strong sexuality, nudity and some violence.
Runtime:
77 min | Canada:77 min (Toronto International Film Festival)
Country:
Japan
Language:
Japanese
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
DTS | Dolby Digital
Company:
Kaijyu Theater more

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5 out of 6 people found the following comment useful.
Life Is to Be Lived in Its Plenitude, 19 October 2009
8/10
Author: Claudio Carvalho from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

In Tokyo, Rinko Tatsumi (Asuka Kurosawa) is a married woman that works in the County Mental Help Center helping needy people. Her husband Shigehiko (Yuji Koutari) is an old man obsessed with cleaning and they have a quite inexistent sexual life, sleeping in separate bed. Out of the blue, Rinko receives an envelope with erotic pictures she took once in the past while modeling and a cellular. She receives a phone call and the man blackmails her, promising to give the negatives to her if she follows his instructions. She is forced to wear miniskirt without panties; to buy a vibrator and use it, walking and exposing to costumers of a department store. The man delivers her photos and tells that he is Iguchi (Shinya Tsukamoto), who is dying of stomach cancer that was saved by her advice; in return he asks her to go to her doctor. Rinko realizes that she has breast cancer and needs to remove one breast. When she tells Shigehiko, he gives a cold reception to the idea. Then the blackmailer contacts Shigehiko, forcing him to follow his instructions.

"Rokugatsu no Hebi", a.k.a. "A Snake of June", is a surrealistic erotic movie that follows the style of David Lynch, with bizarre sequences and characters. This is the first work of the director Shinya Tsukamoto that I have watched and this is the type of "love or hate" cult-movie. The stylish cinematography uses blue filter in the rainy season of Tokyo, giving the mood of sadness and nightmarish atmosphere to the weird story. Asuka Kurosawa is absolutely sexy breathing eroticism in the sequences that she follows the instructions of the blackmailer. There are many metaphoric scenes without explanation, but I believe that the major idea of the story is that life is to be lived in its plenitude since we may die on the next minute of our existence. My vote is eight.

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