Japan’s Nikkatsu is set to launch sales on director Daishi Matsunaga’s gay romance drama Egoist and Tetsu Maeda’s suspense film Do Unto Others at the Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM).
Set to play in competition at the upcoming Tokyo International Film Festival, Egoist is from the director of 2015 drama Pieta In The Toilet and documentary Pyuupiru 2001-2008.
Starring Ryohei Suzuki and Hio Miyazawa, it follows a fashion magazine editor who starts working with a young personal trainer, who has dopped out of school to support his ailing mother. Having lost his own mother early, the editor is fascinated by the young man and eventually they fall in love – but a secret festers.
Produced by Robot Communications, the film is planned for release in February 2023.
Suspense film Do Unto Others is from the director of And So The Baton Is Passed, What Happened To Our Nest Egg? and School Days Of With A Pig, of which the latter won audience awards at both Tokyo and Jeonju film festivals in 2008.
Maeda’s latest stars Kenichi Matsuyama and Masami Nagasawa, and begins when the dead bodies of an old man and the director of a nursing care centre are found. Authorities suspect a care worker who turns out to be a kind-hearted young man loved by the families he visited. The prosecutor in charge of the case finds out the death rate at the centre is abnormally high and starts to investigate, but the care worker claims what he did was not murder but “salvation”.
Nikkatsu Corporation is producing the film which is in post-production. It is planned for release in March 2023.
The ACFM takes place in Busan, South Korea from October 8-11.
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