2LDK (2003)

User Rating:

7.0/10   

Director:

Yukihiko Tsutsumi

Writer:

Yukihiko Tsutsumi (writer)

Release Date:

4 October 2003 (Japan)

Genre:

Drama | Horror | Thriller

Plot:

Two actresses who have auditioned for one part, sharing the same apartment with opposite personalities equals a night which either neither of them will forget - if they survive!

Plot Keywords:

Apartment | Tokyo | Gas | Cell Phone | Fire Extinguisher

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Eiko Koike	...	Nozomi
Maho Nonami	...	Rana
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Daisuke Kizaki

Directed by
Yukihiko Tsutsumi

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Yukihiko Tsutsumi		writer

Produced by
Yuji Ishida	....	producer
Shinya Kawai	....	supervising producer
Kazuki Manabe	....	producer
Susumu Nakazawa	....	producer

Film Editing by
Nobuyuki Ito

Production Design by
Hisao Inagaki

Production Companies

• DUEL Film Partners
• Micott
• Times In

Distributors

• Rapid Eye Movies (2004) (Germany) (theatrical)
• TLA Releasing (2004) (USA) (DVD)
• WE Productions (2006) (France) (DVD)

Other Companies

• Office Crescendo  production cooperation

Runtime:

Japan:70 min | UK:66 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

DTS-Stereo

Certification:

Australia:M | Canada:18A | UK:18 | Japan:R-15 | Germany:18 | South Korea:18

Company:

DUEL Film Partners

Trivia:

Filmed in sequence over eight days. Due to the tight schedule the actresses and crew often had to work through the night.

Quotes:

[Lana and Nazomi have knives in each others throats]
Lana: That feels nice.
Nozomi: We'll regret this.
Lana: What a relief.... Good luck.
Nozomi: ...You too.
[both pull their knives out]

Shows how much a person can get on another's nerves.

This was a well acted, nicely paced story of two opposite roommates, competing for the same part in a movie. The story develops as we hear their thoughts and discover how much they hate each other, despite their politeness to each other. Tensions rise as the poorer, more homely, neat-freak confronts the wealthier, more sexually-experienced, relaxed princess about breaking house "rules." Attacks start out with mind games, to implied verbal slights, to overt insults, and then to ever-escalating physical assaults. This film is wild. It's funny in how much they hate each other, and how far they go, non-stop. If you can't find humor in violence, don't bother watching this. While this film goes deeply into mental, emotional, social conflict-- it is a fight movie. So don't expect Shakespeare! Also not a complex film: only two adept actresses in the same condo the whole movie. This simplicity made me like the film more. Unique. The only thing I could compare this to would be an American film called "Tape" which, while not violent, only involved 3 actors (Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, and ?) in one hotel room, brooding over mental-psychological conflicts.