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Black Kiss

TEZKA Macoto

Japan2005118min DigiBeta Color Asian Premiere

Synopsis

Starting with a sudden murder case at a so-called love hotel, the same murder occurs at the same time but in different places. Friends of lethally beautiful Asuka who has been obsessed with murder since childhood, start to disappear. However, this is just the beginning. As Asuka meets Kazmi, a girl known as the devil, and cameraman Tatsuo and police officer Yuske, the murder case becomes even more obscure. The case falls into a mystery as the four main characters linked by the dark and mysterious case tumbles into the bizarre and insane rituals, zombie, murder and death.

Diretor

TEZKA Macoto

Born 1961, Tokyo. He began his film career since high school with 8mm film. Under the title as a visualist, he presents many visual media such as experimental films and documentaries. Also as a film director, his work Hakuchi: The Innocent (1999) won at the Venice International Film Festival. Other notable works includes Black Kiss (2015), Tezka’s Barbara (2019) and Anime Black Jack (2004), which awarded at Tokyo Anime Award 2006.