Highlights
Wife of a Spy
Supai no tsuma
Swiss Premiere
Kiyoshi Kurosawa / Japan / 2020 / 115 min / Drama
Japanese / Subtitles English
Japanese / Subtitles English
A businessman, his wife, 1940, Kobe, Japan at war. Against this romantic backdrop, Kiyoshi Kurosawa weaves a paranoid and elegant thriller about false appearances (i.e. cinema), which earned him the Silver Bear for Best Director at the last Venice Film Festival.
The leading filmmaker of a generation that followed the Japanese New Wave, Kiyoshi Kurosawa has made B series, ghost movies and Pinku-eiga (pink cinema) for Nikkatsu productions. Impetuous, he continues his explorations with his first period film, co-written with Ryusuke Hamaguchi, director of Asako I & II. Flashback. We are in Kobe in 1940 with sacrificed lovers, on the eve of the war. What has become of Japan?
Direction
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Screenplay
Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Tadashi Nohara, Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Image
Tatsunosuke Sasaki
Editing
Hidemi Lee
Sound
Keita Yoshino
Music
Ryosuke Nagaoka
Production
NHK (Keisuke Tsuchihashi), NHK Enterprises (Takashi Sawada), INCLINE (Satoshi Takada), C&I ENTERTAINMENT (Tamon Kondo)
With
Yu Aoi, Issey Takahashi, Ryota Bando, Yuri Tsunematsu
International sales
Nikkatsu Corporation (Mami Furukawa)