Official website for Tetsuo Shinohara's YOKUBÔ, starring Yuka Itaya, Jun Murakami, Saki Takaoka, an
The official website for Tetsuo Shinohara's Yokubô is now online, although at present it's just a home page. The movie is based on the eponymous novel by Mariko Koike (who also wrote the eponymous story on which Shin'ya Tsukamoto's "Tamamushi", in the omnibus movie Female (Fîmeiru), was based). The theme song for it is by Tomoyasu Hotei. It stars Yuka Itaya (she was in Takashi Miike's satellite TV - specifically, BS Japan K.K. (K.K. BS Japan) - movie Pâto taimu tantei 2 (a.k.a. "Onna to ai to misuterî: dai-146-kai")), Jun Murakami (he was in Shion Sono's Into a Dream (Yume no naka e) and Itsumichi Isomura's Getting Off the Boat at Her Island (Fune o oritara kanojo no shima)), Saki Takaoka (she's also in Rokurô Mochizuki's Nureta akai ito, and was in Suzuki Matsuo's "Yoru no shitasaki" in Female, as well as Hirohisa Sasaki's "Gloves" ("Tebukuro") in the omnibus horror movie Tales of Terror (Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: gekijô-ban)), and Masahiko Tsugawa (he's also in Takashi Kayane's Naniwa kin'yû-dô: Haibara shôbu! Kishikaisei no otoshimae!!).
Media Suits K.K. (K.K. Media Sûtsu) plans to release Yokubô theatrically in Japan in late autumn. The movie has been rated R-18 by the Administration Commission of Motion Picture Code of Ethics (Eirin Kanri Iinkai).
Shinohara's previous directing credits include "Momo" in Female, and Karaoke Terror (Shôwa kayô daizenshû).
