Mariko is 28, works at a bar in Kabukicho, and she also runs a detective agency. Her regular bar customers include her lover, two assassins, a hostess and an ex-yakuza. One day the FBI visits and asks her to search for an actual alien. The investigation forces her to confront her tragic past. Full of crazy characters, this surrealistic comedy makes the most of its Kabukicho nightlife setting.
Mariko is 28 jaar oud, werkt in een bar in Kabukicho en runt een detectivebureau. Haar stamgasten zijn haar geliefde, twee huurmoordenaars, een gastvrouw en een voormalig yakuza. Op een dag krijgt ze bezoek van de FBI, die haar vraagt een buitenaards wezen op te sporen. Het onderzoek dwingt haar de confrontatie aan te gaan met haar tragische verleden. Een surrealistische komedie vol aparte personages, waarin optimaal gebruik wordt gemaakt van de situering in het nachtleven van het Kabikuchiko district in Tokyo.
Directed by UCHIDA Eiji 内田英治 & KATAYAMA Shinzo 片山慎三.
UCHIDA Eiji 内田英治 was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Before joining the film industry, he worked as a reporter for Playboy Japan. Uchida had smash hits at the Japanese box office with his low budget features Lowlife Love and Love and Other Cults, which were also screened at over fifty film festivals internationally. Subsequently he wrote and directed episodes for the first season of the internationally acclaimed Netflix series The Naked Director. In 2020, Midnight Swan won him the Japan Academy Film Prize for Best Picture.
2023 – Life of Mariko in Kabukicho 探偵マリコの生涯で一番悲惨な日
2022 – Offbeat Cops 異動辞令は音楽隊! (CJ 2022)
2021 – Shrieking in the Rain 雨に叫べば (CJ 2022)
2020 – Midnight Swan ミッドナイトスワン
2017 – Love for Sale 身体を売ったらサヨウナラ
2017 – Love and Other Cults 獣道 (CJ 2017)
2016 – Lowlife Love 下衆の愛 (CJ 2016)
2014 – Dead Banging メタルカ -METALCA-
2013 – Greatful Dead グレイトフルデッド (CJ 2014)
2007 – Topless トップレス
KATAYAMA Shinzo 片山慎三 worked as assistant director for YAMASHITA Nobuhiro before becoming assistant director to BONG Joon-ho on Mother. His debut feature Siblings of the Cape won Best Picture – Feature Length at Skip City International D-Cinema Festival. His second film Missing won the Grand Jury competition at CinemAsia Film Festival.
2023 – Life of Mariko in Kabukicho 探偵マリコの生涯で一番悲惨な日
2021 – Missing さがす
2018 – Siblings of the Cape 岬の兄妹