Hiroshi SHIMIZU 清水浩
Chicken Heart
チキン☆ハート
Nippon Cinema ª
Young Iwano is exploited by two jobless friends as a "Human Punching Bag". For a handful of dollars per minute, stressed businessmen can live out their frustrated fantasies. Spending their evenings together at their favorite snack stand they are falling into one nutty situation after another... It just might be time for these three heartwarming non-conformists to settle down.
チキン☆ハート
Japan 2002
105 minutes
Production
Bandai Visual, Tokyo FM, TV Tokyo, Office Kitano
World sales
Celluloid Dreams
Cast
Hiroyuki IKEUCHI, Kiyoshiro IMAWANO, Suzuki MATSUO, Nobuyoshi ARAKI
About Hiroshi SHIMIZU
清水浩
His debut film IKINAI (1998) won awards at several festivals. SHIMIZU worked as an assistant director on six films by Takeshi KITANO (Sonatine, Getting Any, Kids Return, Hana-bi, Kikujiro and Brother).