Release Date : February, 24th, 2007
Screen Time : 112 min.
Genre : Drama, Fiction, Feature

Color : Color
Screening Format : 35mm
Screen Size : -
Sound System : -
Sound Processing : Dolby SR

[ Directed by ] YAMASHITA Nobuhiro

[ Produced by ] YAMAGAMI Tetsujiro

[ Cast ]

• ARAI Hirofumi SUZUKI Kotaro
• YAMANAKA Takashi SUZUKI Hikaru
• KAWAGOE Miwa IKEUCHI Miyuki
• MIURA Tomokazu SUZUKI Toyomichi

[ Staff ]

• MUKAI Kosuke Screenplay
• SATO Kumiko Screenplay
• YAMASHITA Nobuhiro Screenplay
• TSUTAI Takahiro Cinematography
• AIKO Etsuko Production Design
• MIYAJIMA Ryuji Editor
• Pascals Music

[ Production Company ]

SIGLO, Bitters End, VAP

[ Story ]

A black comedy depicting a fiasco at a country town in the early 1990s, a conflict between twin brothers, and the human events that surround the brothers.
In a quiet town of Matsugane where nothing happens, Kotaro (Arai Hirofumi), a son of the dairy farming Suzuki family, is a policeman. His twin brother, Hikaru (Yamanaka Takashi), half-heartedly helps the family business. One day, a couple, Nishioka (Kimura Yuichi) and Miyuki (Kawagoe Miwa), comes to Matsugane, causing a subtle disturbance to the balance in the town. Hikaru causes a hit-and-run accident involving Miyuki, and is blackmailed by Nishioka. Hikaru's father (Miura Tomokazu), who ran away from home, makes Haruko, a daughter of a barber in the neighborhood, pregnant. Peace gradually returns to Matsugane in the spring, when Haruko gives birth safely, grandfather's death brings father home, and Kotaro is busy getting rid of mice as they appear at the police station from time to time. Then suddenly out of the blue, five gun shots ring out in Matsugane.
Starring Arai Hirofumi of The Whispering of the Gods(Germanium no Yoru). Directed by Yamashita Nobuhiro of No One's Ark(Baka no Hakobune) and Ramblers(Rializumu no Yado). Entered in the Competition section at the Tokyo International Film Festival in 2007.

[ Official Site ]

http://www.bitters.co.jp/matsugane