AT THE TERRACE

By Kenji YAMAUCHI

ARTICLE FILMS - as SALES All rights, World

Comedy - Completed 2016

At a home party, Haruko's fair arms catch the attention of the men, igniting the jealousy of her husband's boss'wife. For 90 uproarious minutes on the terrace, director Kenji Yamauchi( Her Father, My Lover) sheds social masks.

Festivals
& Awards

Tokyo - TiffCom 2016
Splash
Udine FEFF 19 2017
Nippon Connection 2017
competition
    • Year of production
    • 2016
    • Genres
    • Comedy, LGBT, Drama
    • Countries
    • JAPAN
    • Languages
    • JAPANESE
    • Budget
    • 0.6 - 1 M$
    • Duration
    • 95 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Kenji YAMAUCHI
    • Writer(s)
    • Kenji YAMAUCHI
    • Producer(s)
    • Tamotsu OSANO (Geek Pictures), Shogo ISHINO (Geek Pictures), Nobuko NOGAMI
    • Synopsis
    • In a Tokyo suburb, a party is winding down at an ostentatious mansion surrounded by greenery. Those who remain begin to gather on a terrace.
      Haruko, a woman with pale white skin, and her graphic designer husband.
      The party’s hosts: a lascivious company director, and his cleavage-flaunting wife.
      A gaunt middle-aged man barely recovered from a serious illness, and an awkward company employee.
      The hosts’ likable son, who comes home late.
      All of the men are captivated by Haruko’s pale white arms, enflaming the jealousy of the company director’s wife. Literary anecdotes abound, as does petty bickering.
      The masks they have carefully crafted are suddenly torn away, exposing their tainted humanity. Desire, jealousy, and secrets are laid bare over 90 minutes on the terrace, culminating in a shocking and not exactly happy end.