The Pinkie

Jan 24, 2014

1h 5m

★ 5.8

Overview

Since they were both five, Ryosuke has been stalked by Momoko - the ugliest girl in the village. Her love for Ryosuke is so boundless that she has her face surgically altered to suit his taste - but still he wants nothing to do with her. Ryosuke goes in for fleeting romance - for example, with the girlfriend of a gangster boss. But when he finds out about their affair, he has Ryosuke's little finger hacked off. Magically, the finger falls into Momoko's hands, and she uses it to clone Ryosuke, so she can finally have him (or almost him) for herself. And this is just the first five minutes of Lisa Takeba's short-but-powerful feature debut. Just like in her previous short films, the director - who cut her teeth in the advertising world and as the writer of a video game - throws a lot of genres and techniques into the mix: from science fiction to gangster films, from hospital eroticism to animation. Hectic and absurd, but with its heart in the right place. © IFFR

Genres

Action

Comedy

Drama

Crime

Science Fiction

The Pinkie Trailers

Cast

Ryosuke

Ryota Ozawa

Momoko

Miwako Wagatsuma

Manami

Haruka Suenaga

Sasakami

Kanji Tsuda

Nurse

Reon Kadena

Mondo Yamagishi

Tokitoshi Shiota

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