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PORNOSTAR

Directed by Toshiaki Toyoda

Japan, 1998, 1h 38min, DCP, In Japanese with English subtitles

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There are no current or future screenings planned for this film.

“An absolute gem.”
Screen Anarchy

“A dispassionate tale of youth on fire but burning itself from the inside out.”
Windows on Worlds

“A vivid, metropolitan debut … dynamic.”
Another Magazine

In this “lost” film from Japan’s Lost Decade, kids rule the love hotel and arcade-lined streets of Shibuya. That is until a steely-eyed loner (an inscrutable Chihara Junia) sets out on a violent spree which helps him find purpose — or not — in a two-front battle against skateboarding teens and the Yakuza. PORNOSTAR is a debut befitting director Toshiaki Toyoda’s belief that “the source of imagination and creativity is anger.” Featuring the brooding guitars of Japanese band Dip, this scuzzfest of angst and 20th-century malaise is more than due for a rediscovery.

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