Kei ISHIKAWA

Gukoroku - Traces Of Sin

愚行録

Nippon Cinema   ª 

Several years after the brutal, unsolved murder of a Tokyo family, ambitious reporter Tanaka attempts to find the perpetrators of the crime. Step by step, he comes close to discovering what really happened. First time director Kei ISHIKAWA’s dramatic thriller, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival 2016, successfully combines genre and suspense elements with social analysis.

愚行録

Japan 2016

120 minutes

Director
Kei ISHIKAWA

Script
Kosuke MUKAI based on a novel by Tokuro NUKUI

Cinematography
Piotr Niemyjski

Music
Takashi OHMAMA

Production
Bandai Visual, TV Tokyo, Warner Bros. Pictures Japan, Tohokushinsha Film Corporation, Office Kitano

World sales
Alpha Violet

Cast
Satoshi TSUMABUKI, Hikari MITSUSHIMA, Keisuke KOIDE, Asami USUDA, Yui ICHIKAWA

About Kei ISHIKAWA

Born in Japan in 1977, Kei ISHIKAWA studied physics at Tohoku University and film directing at the Łódź Film School in Poland. He has made several short films that have been screened at film festivals worldwide. In 2013, his Japanese-Polish co-production feature project BABY won the Bucheon Award from the Network of Asian Fantastic Films (NAFF). GUKOROKU – TRACES OF SIN is Kei ISHIKAWA’s first feature film.

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