Alternately exciting, funny and tender, The Terrible Couple is a teen movie and the first of Shinji Sômai’s films to focus on the years of adolescence open to life’s new experiences. It tells the story of two high-school students, a boy and a girl, brought by circumstance to live under the same roof. Setting a free, sensitive tone, Sômai experiments with what already characterised the strength of his mise en scène: subtle long shots that merge perfectly with highly directed acting, an attention to movement and shifts, suggesting a Bazinian ontology of the film shot, which does not exclude a plastic finesse reminiscent of the references of the time, notably the manga.
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The Terrible Couple
(Tonda kappuru)
by Shinji SÔMAI
- Japan
- 1980
- Fiction
- Couleur
- 122′
- Japanese
- 35 mm
- Titre français
The Terrible Couple - Original title
Tonda kappuru - Titre international
The Terrible Couple - Scénario
Shoichi Maruyama - Adaptation
d'après le manga de Kimio Yanagisawa - Photo
Nobumasa Mizunoo - Montage
Osamu Inoue - Son
Yoshirô Sakawa - Musique
Izumi Kobayashi - Interprétation
Shingo Tsurumi, Hiroko Yakushimaru, Mieko harada, Hiroshi Madoka - Production
Kitty Films - Producteur délégué
Kei Ijichi, Haruo Kaneda - Ventes internationales
Toho Company : m_okuda@toho.co.jp - Support de projection
35 mm - Sous-titrage
VOST électronique - Ratio
1:66
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