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Original name: Ai Ni Ranbou
English name: Rude to Love
Year: 2024
Run time: 105 minutes
Language: Japanese
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Colour
Country: Japan
Director: Yukihiro Morigaki
Producer: Rampei Yokoyama, Takuma Yoshida
Cast: Noriko Eguchi, Kotaro Koizumi, Jun Fubuki, Fumika Baba
Screenplay: Yukihiro Morigaki, Sahoko Yamazaki, Ayako Suzuki
Cinematographer: Toyotaro Shigemori
Editor: Kenichi Hirai
Sound Designer: Masayuki Inomata
Music Composer: Taro Iwashiro
Production Designer: Keiko Matsunaga
Production Company: Tokyo Theatres Co., Inc., Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation
World Sales: Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation
Morigaki Yukihiro was born in Hiroshima, Japan, in 1983 and started making documentaries while at university. He is a well-known commercials and TV drama director who has won awards at Cannes Lions and ACC CM Festival and his short film Clockwork Couple won the best film of the 2014 FOX Movie Premiere Short Film Festival.
An unsettling drama about a marriage which is steadily losing its spark. Momoko (Noriko Eguchi) leads a respectable life as a housewife. She dresses elegantly and ensures that the apartment looks just right, down to the last detail; she attends to her husband assiduously and goes to great lengths to cook him proper Japanese food. Are these expressions of love, or rather paranoia from the emotional chasm that has opened out between them? And when does devoted care become an obsession? A psychologically precise case history of a spent relationship, in which long suppressed pain has risen to the surface. A film that examines the dark corners of human frustration and hysteria, where the desire to create something good develops into the urge to destroy.
