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Original title

Asobi

Year

1971

Running time

90 min.

Country

Japan

Director

Yasuzô Masumura

Screenwriter

Masayoshi Imako, Masahiro Ito, Yasuzô Masumura. Novel: Akiyuki Nosaka

Cast

Music

Takeo Watanabe

Cinematography

Setsuo Kobayashi

Producer

Daiei Studios

Genre

Drama. Romance | Romantic Drama

Synopsis

A young factory worker is picked up and courted by a clumsy youth with yakuza dreams, over one long day and a night. But in the fourteen years since Kisses, life and the cinema have become more violent for two virginal youths working on their cool. Play can become all too real. The seventeen-year-old heroine (Keiko Sekine) is about to give in to the demands of her family's poverty and become a bar hostess when she is dissuaded by her new friend (Masaaki Daimon). But he has an even more dangerous agenda for her. (The film contains several graphic scenes of yakuza sexual violence.) A flashback structure delineates the wretched, violent homes both youths are running from, toward a world that is far worse. A film of outrageous set pieces and overstated acting, Play nevertheless has realism in its sights.

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1971

Yasuzô Masumura