KEN AND KAZU

KEN TO KAZU

By Hiroshi SHOJI

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Drama - Completed 2016

Winner of Best Picture Award at 2015 Tokyo International Film Festival, Japanese Cinema Splash Section.
Hiroshi Shoji's feature directorial debut, based on his eponymous 2011 short.

Festivals
& Awards

Tokyo International Film Festival 2015
Winner of Best Picture Award Japanese Cinema Splash Section
Shanghai 2016
Panorama
Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival 2016
World Fantastic Blue
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016
Taipei Film Festival 2016
Japan Cuts 2016
    • Year of production
    • 2016
    • Genres
    • Drama, Crime
    • Countries
    • JAPAN
    • Languages
    • JAPANESE
    • Duration
    • 96 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Hiroshi SHOJI
    • Writer(s)
    • Hiroshi SHOJI
    • Producer(s)
    • Nichiho MARUMO, Hiroshi SHOJI
    • Synopsis
    • Partners in crime Ken and Kazu use an auto repair shop to sell drugs and make money. When Ken's girlfriend Saki gets pregnant, he does his best to go straight. But Kazu makes a dangerous move, and Ken comes to draw the attention of the local Yakuza boss and is slowly driven into a corner. Obsession, sense of indebtedness, connection and future is portrayed against the backdrop of drug dealings in the underworld.