"Snake Tongue" by Hitomi Kanehara

Yes, but it’s not released yet, it will be soon.

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On the 15th of this month, the well-known Japanese stage director Yukio Ninagawa released his fifth film directorial work "Snake Tongue". A press conference for the completion of production was held at the Roppongi Hotel in Tokyo.

The film "Snake Tongue", adapted from the Akutagawa Award-winning work of the same name, focuses on the corrupt lives of young people in Japan today and tells the story of a girl obsessed with body modification and two delinquent youths.

The 72-year-old Yukio Ninagawa, who has sex with three young actors in the film industry this time, feels that he is still very young: "Looking at the three leading actors, I feel like I am a guardian. But this is not a collaboration between young people and old people. I feel I’m still young, I just don’t look young on the outside.”

Hitomi Kanehara, the original author of "Snake Tongue", also attended this press conference: "It is really a great thing that this book can be brought to the screen by Director Ninagawa." A video work, "The movie is of course faithful to the original work, but some of the special flavors in the original work are even stronger in Ninagawa's video world. Director Ninagawa completely captured the characteristics of each character, even I ( After watching the movie, I made many unexpected discoveries."

The first female lead in this film is newcomer actress Yoshitaka Yuriko. "Snake Tongue" is Yoshitaka's first starring film: "I was very interested in Director Ninagawa, so I went for an interview. ", and then he was attracted by the charm of Director Ninagawa, "Director Ninagawa's eyes are very bright, as if he will be sucked in, and there is a terrible feeling of being seen through, but the other person is actually a very gentle person." .

In September last year, the heroine Ji Gao of this film was hospitalized due to a traffic accident and suffered multiple injuries to her chin and waist. Looking back on herself at that time and relating it to her new work, Ji Gao had such a Thoughts: ""Snake Tongue" is about 'it is precisely because of the pain that you feel you are still alive'. I once had a similar experience." "Snake Tongue" will be officially released in Japan in September 2008. Imari