A Unique Country in Asia (2025) (Directed by: YAMAUCHI Kenji)
【STORY】
Yoko, who lives in Tokyo with her husband and cares for her father-in-law, dislikes a certain politician.
Something has happened recently and things have started going wrong at home. The husband doesn’t seem to notice. However, the housewife next door seems to have noticed.
Directed and written by: YAMAUCHI Kenji｜Exective Producer：Yuri Date｜Producer：Nobuko Nogami, Ryu Nagai
Cinematography, Editing：Yuichiro Watanabe｜Recording, Audio mixing：Yoshiaki Kitahara｜Audio mixing：Tomoyuki Sugita｜Effects：ERIKA｜Music：Shizuno Oshiro
Stylist：Yoshie Masui｜Hair&Makeup ：Akira Tanaka（TTA）、Hitomi Kabasawa（TTA）｜Production design：Shohei Yamashita
Casting：Masako Yamauchi｜Production assistant：Yuka Nakano, Yohei Tanaka, Hitomi Abe, Misao Maejima, Atsushi Yoneda, Tomoko Maeda
Advertisement design：Asami Hosoya｜Illustration：コーロキキョーコ
Production：Oversleep｜Distribution：Starsands
■Cast
Ami Chong
Eri Iwamoto / Takenori Kaneko / Kenji Iwaya
Shoichiro Suzuki / Takuma Izumi / Momoi Shimada / Kosuke Asai / Rena Hatano
Haru Murakami / Chikuko Akabane / Heiji / Mayumi Kanetani / Yui Nishide / Kunimasa Kitahara / Masakatsu Yamauchi
Running time: 77 minutes
※This movie is not suitable for people under 18 years of age.
※This movie contains sexual content.
Director: YAMAUCHI Kenji
Playwright, film director, and commercial director. In theater, he presides over “Shiroyagi no kai”, and won the 59th Kishida Kunio Drama Award for “Troisgros” (2015) and the 74th Yomiuri Literature Prize in the drama script category for “Warming Autumn – Hot Autumn” (2022). His latest work is “The Sweetness that Makes My Spit Come Out on Its Own” (KAAT, 2025).
【SELETCTED FILMOGRAPHY】
■ミツコ感覚／BEING MITSUKO（2011）
■友だちのパパが好き／Her Father, My Lover（2015）
■At the terraceテラスにて／At the terrace（2016）
■夜明けの夫婦／Dawning on Us（2022)