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The Strange Killers

Shunsuke Yamamoto

Japan2002 66min 6mm Digital Color Asian Premiere

Synopsis

Unemployed loafer, Maeda is chased by a desperate few around him. The wife wants her husband dead for his life insurance payment and his student lover wants him only to herself, while two hit-men (one officially in charge of Maeda’s killing, the other attempting to obstruct the former) get involved in the circle of a bloody war on Maeda. A kicking violence-action comedy.

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Shunsuke Yamamoto

Shunsuke Yamamoto was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1975. While a student in the sociology department at Ryokkyo University, he joined a filmmaking group at Waseda University and started producing his own 8mm and 16mm films. In 2001 he formed his own film production company, Shotgunfilm, and made his first full-length film.