Moonlight Whispers
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| Directed by | Akihiko Shiota |
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| Music by | Shinsuke Honda |
| Cinematography | Shigeru Komatsubara |
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| Distributed by | Bitters End |
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| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Moonlight Whispers (月光の囁き Sasayaki?) is a 1999 Japanese film directed by Akihiko Shiota and based on the manga Gekko no sasayaki by Masahiko Kikuni.[1][2]
Plot
Boy (Takuya) meets girl (Satsuki), they fall in love. When she discovers his fetishes Satsuki brands Takuya hentai (pervert) and leaves him, only to be drawn back by the power his fetishes give her over him.
Cast
- Kenji Mizuhashi as Takuya Hidaka
- Tsugumi as Satsuki Kitahara
- Kōta Kusano as Tadashi Uematsu
- Harumi Inoue as Shizuka Kitahara
- Yoshiki Sekino as Maruken
Reception
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- "Moonlight Whisper buzzes with a quietly disturbing resonance that will stick with you for days." Time Out, New York
- "...unspools like a long kinky episode of 'Dawson's Creek'...succeeds in uncovering moments of delicate nuance." A. O. Scott, The New York Times[1]
- "Perfectly deranged...Attains a hospitalized lyricism not seen since Cronenberg's Crash" Chuck Stephens, San Francisco Bay Guardian.
- "An audacious blend of perversion and poignancy" Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle.
- "discreetly erotic...[director, Akihiko Shiota is] an original new talent." Derek Elley, Variety
- "a singular film. . . passionately romantic."Noah Cowan, Toronto International Film Festival
Awards
- 1999: Special Jury Prize at the 10th Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival[3]
- 1999: Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award
- 1999: Hochi Film Award (Best New Director for Akihiko Shiota)
- 1999: Locarno International Film Festival, Golden Leopard (Nomination for Akihiko Shiota)
- 2000: Japanese Professional Movie Award
- Tsugumi (Best New Actress)
- Akihiko Shiota (Best New Director)
- 2000: Mainichi Film Concours, Sponichi Grand Prize (New Talent Award for Akihiko Shiota)
- Yokohama Film Festival, Festival Prize
- Best New Director Akihiko Shiota
- Best New Talent Tsugumi
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See also
External links
- Official website
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Moonlight Whispers at IMDb
- 月光の囁き at the Japanese Movie Database (Japanese)
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