Dawn of the Felines

Directed by Kazuya Shiraishi

Omnibus Entertainment

2016

85 Minutes

Japan

Japanese

Erotic, Drama, Asian

Asian Studies, Sex & Sexuality

Not Rated

Library Pricing:

DVD $150.00

Blu-ray $150.00

PPR $350.00

DRL $499.00

PPR+DRL $599.00

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Three women drift through the night streets of Ikebukuro, Tokyo. They sleep with the men who call them, and then dawn breaks again. A story about women who feel lonely in the city but live life to the fullest, and the men who surround them. In celebration of the 45th anniversary of Nikkatsu’s roman porno — the more highbrow pinku eiga movement that saved the studio from bankruptcy in the early 1970s — the venerable producer enlisted five of Japan’s most prominent indie filmmakers to re-envision the sub-genre. This is Kazuya Shiraishi's entry in Nikkatsu's Roman Porno ("Romantic Porno") reboot project.

Cast

Juri Ihata
Satsuki Maue
Michie
Kazuko Shirakawa

Highest Rating
"Kazuya Shiraishi’s film benefits from an excellent and wholly believable script, which fully fleshes out its characters, warts and all, and which manages to be dramatic, eventful and even moving without ever feeling artificial."

James Mudge, easternKicks.com
Highest Rating
"Juri Ihata’s portrayal of Masako is richly complex and rigorously unsentimental. She plays her tough and smart, but also quite vulnerable. Satsuki Maue effectively brings out the Jekyll and Hyde in Yui, but the one-named Michie probably takes the honors with her mature yet frequently surprising work as Rie."

Joe Bendel, J.B. Spins
Highest Rating
"Dawn of the Felines is a suitably melancholy, though no less involving, slice-of-life drama revolving around a trio of prostitutes working for a shabby escort agency in the Ikebukuro district of Tokyo."

Edmund Lee, South China Morning Post