Shinji ARAKI 荒木伸二
The Town Of Headcounts
人数の町
Nippon Visions ½
Aoyama flees from loan sharks to a mysterious town, where food, shelter and even transactional sex are easily available. However, when a new arrival starts looking for her missing sister, things take a sinister turn. Shinji ARAKI’s feature film debut blends several genre elements into a visionary, politically incisive commentary on the state of society.
人数の町
Ninzu no machi
Japan 2020
111 minutes
Production
Kinoshita Group
World sales
Kino Films
Cast
Tomoya NAKAMURA, Shizuka ISHIBASHI, Eri TACHIBANA, So YAMANAKA, Junpei HASHINO
About Shinji ARAKI
荒木伸二
Shinji ARAKI, born in Tokyo in 1970, graduated from the University of Tokyo, where he majored in Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies. His thesis focused on the work of filmmaker Jacques RIVETTE. He has directed several TV commercials and music videos in addition to his work as a creative director and TV commercial planner. PENALTY LOOP (2024 / NC ’24), for which he also wrote the screenplay, is his second feature film after his internationally recognized feature-length directorial debut, THE TOWN OF HEADCOUNTS (2020 / NC ’21).