SNAKES AND EARRINGS (JAPAN, 2008)
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
124 minutes, 35mm, in Japanese with English subtitles
Directed by: Yukio Ninagawa
Starring: Yuriko Yoshitaka, Kengo Kora, Arata, Yu Abiru
Showtimes:
Fri June 26, 1:15pm at the IFC Center [Buy Tickets].
Thu July 2, 7:00pm at the IFC Center [Buy Tickets].
Note: "Buy Tickets" links will take you to the IFC Center website (for shows at IFC Center) and to Japan Society website (for shows at Japan Society). Tickets for each venue must be purchased separately.
Blue Ribbon Awards – 2009
Winner – “Best New Talent” – Yuriko Yoshitaka
Based on the best-selling novel about a woman who decides that her one goal in life is to have her tongue split, this is the sexy body modification movie you’ve been waiting for. While alone in a nightclub, straight-laced Lui meets sensitive but troubled punk kid Ama (Kengo Kora of last year’s SAD VACATION). Mesmerized by his split tongue, she becomes obsessed with body modification and soon wants the same treatment. After Ama’s heavily-tattooed friend Shiba (Arata, 20th CENTURY BOYS) pierces her tongue, Lui finds herself inexorably drawn to both men – and to her growing list of desires, she now adds a tattoo.
Passions flare in acclaimed stage director Yukio Ninagawa’s SNAKES AND EARRINGS, a hyper-sexual anti-romance based on Hitomi Kanehara’s award winning 2003 novel of the same name. Yuriko Yoshitaka gives an incredibly raw, totally exposed performance that’s cleaning up at the awards and she’s the anchor of this emotional, erotic, disturbing and seductive movie. As Lui’s life spirals further and further into chaos, as she gives herself over to the pleasures of her endlessly mutating body and as the boundaries between the priceless and the insignificant blur, she becomes truly lost.
SNAKES AND EARRINGS is a sad, beautiful film that pushes the boundaries, hard. It can be cold, clinical, scary and erotic all at the same time and it features several human monsters who are as beautiful as Clive Barker grotesques: so deformed in body and soul that you can’t take your eyes off of them. This is a date movie for the body mod set, and the perfect film for anyone who ever wondered what it was that attracted people to getting pierced. By the end of SNAKES AND EARRINGS you’ll understand more about the human body, sexual pleasure, and human suffering than you ever thought possible.
SNAKES AND EARRINGS (JAPAN, 2008)
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
124 minutes, 35mm, in Japanese with English subtitles
Directed by: Yukio Ninagawa
Starring: Yuriko Yoshitaka, Kengo Kora, Arata, Yu Abiru
Showtimes:
Fri June 26, 1:15pm at the IFC Center [Buy Tickets].
Thu July 2, 7:00pm at the IFC Center [Buy Tickets].
Note: "Buy Tickets" links will take you to the IFC Center website (for shows at IFC Center) and to Japan Society website (for shows at Japan Society). Tickets for each venue must be purchased separately.
Blue Ribbon Awards – 2009
Winner – “Best New Talent” – Yuriko Yoshitaka
Based on the best-selling novel about a woman who decides that her one goal in life is to have her tongue split, this is the sexy body modification movie you’ve been waiting for. While alone in a nightclub, straight-laced Lui meets sensitive but troubled punk kid Ama (Kengo Kora of last year’s SAD VACATION). Mesmerized by his split tongue, she becomes obsessed with body modification and soon wants the same treatment. After Ama’s heavily-tattooed friend Shiba (Arata, 20th CENTURY BOYS) pierces her tongue, Lui finds herself inexorably drawn to both men – and to her growing list of desires, she now adds a tattoo.
Passions flare in acclaimed stage director Yukio Ninagawa’s SNAKES AND EARRINGS, a hyper-sexual anti-romance based on Hitomi Kanehara’s award winning 2003 novel of the same name. Yuriko Yoshitaka gives an incredibly raw, totally exposed performance that’s cleaning up at the awards and she’s the anchor of this emotional, erotic, disturbing and seductive movie. As Lui’s life spirals further and further into chaos, as she gives herself over to the pleasures of her endlessly mutating body and as the boundaries between the priceless and the insignificant blur, she becomes truly lost.
SNAKES AND EARRINGS is a sad, beautiful film that pushes the boundaries, hard. It can be cold, clinical, scary and erotic all at the same time and it features several human monsters who are as beautiful as Clive Barker grotesques: so deformed in body and soul that you can’t take your eyes off of them. This is a date movie for the body mod set, and the perfect film for anyone who ever wondered what it was that attracted people to getting pierced. By the end of SNAKES AND EARRINGS you’ll understand more about the human body, sexual pleasure, and human suffering than you ever thought possible.
