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A Laughing Frog

Hideyuki Hirayama

Japan2001 96min 35mm Color Asian Premiere

Synopsis

Ryoko is living in hear parent’s countryside villa after her husband’s disappearance, with 85 million yen in deabt. When Hubby Ippei shows up, looking like a tramp, she crumples in a lady-like faint, but when she comes to, it is as though panic never entered her well-ordered mind. She orders Ippei to hide in the storeroom when visiors come. Through a peephole Ippei soon learns several distressing facts.

Diretor

Hideyuki Hirayama

Born in Fukuoka in 1950, Hideyuki Hirayama worked as Assistant Director for directors such as among others, Kazuhiko Hasegawa, Tai Kato and Toshiya Fujita after graduating from the College of Art at Nihon University. He directed his first film, < Maria no Ibukuro > in 1990 and < The Game Teachers Play >(1992) won the Best New Comer Award from Director's Guild of Japan.