Film
The Wart
- Director
- Shinji Imaoka
- Year
- 1996
A man becomes obsessed with delusions due to his obsession with a woman he lost, and loses sight of reality. A girl he meets in a rundown entertainment district gently accepts the man's delusions. The only time the two, who seek each other as if to erase the boundary between self and other, feel reality is when they indulge in a dangerous game involving a time bomb... The audiovisual effects, calculated down to the smallest detail, such as the rain and humidity, the deliberate use of red in the color scheme, and the pop song the woman hums, contribute to the continuation of the conceptual story.
Top cast
Yohta Kawase
Yoshio
Yumika Hayashi
Michiko
Kazuhiro Sano
Bar owner
Maako Mizuno
Takako
Tetsu Tomioka
Japanese man with foreigners
Hiroshi Sato
Man in uniform
Minako Tobe
Woman in red
Ami Amed
Foreigner
Yukiko Izumi
Ali Ahmed
Foreigner
Max von Schuler
Foreigner
Takanobu Hoshikawa
Man in uniform
Kiyomi Itō
Woman at construction sight
Tomohiro Okada
Yoshio's former colleague
Directed by
Shinji Imaoka
Written by
Shinji Imaoka, Takanobu Hoshikawa
Produced by
Keiko Satô
