Wild Side

  • 33'
  • Japan
  • 1993
The video pieces Wild Side and After That show Nagasaki at his most personal - not to mention his furthest from the commercial mainstream. Wild Side was one of six medium-length pieces made for a series called J Movie Wars, commissioned for the satellite channel Wowow. Nagasaki takes the chance to distill one of his recurrent themes - the skewed sexual triangle - into its most perverse form, garnished with a streak of jet-black humour. In four chapters, the film anatomises the chaotic life of a radio agony uncle (Tamaki Koji, from The Drive) who is having simultaneous affairs with a sado-masochistic call-girl and the wife of an aggrieved tour-bus driver. It has one of Nagasaki's best punch-lines. (TR) 
Director
Nagasaki Shunichi
Country of production
Japan
Year
1993
Festival Edition
IFFR 2006
Length
33'
Medium
35mm
Original title
Wairusaidu
Language
Japanese
Producers
JSB Japan Satellite Broadcasting, Sento Takenori, Sato Shoetsu
Sales
WOWOW, Inc.
Screenplay
Nagasaki Shunichi, based in part on a play by Uno Isamu
Cinematography
Watanabe Makoto
Editor
Kakesu Shuichi
Production Design
Yamada Hitoshi
Cast
Mizushima Kaori, Tamaki Koji
Director
Nagasaki Shunichi
Country of production
Japan
Year
1993
Festival Edition
IFFR 2006
Length
33'
Medium
35mm
Original title
Wairusaidu
Language
Japanese
Producers
JSB Japan Satellite Broadcasting, Sento Takenori, Sato Shoetsu
Sales
WOWOW, Inc.
Screenplay
Nagasaki Shunichi, based in part on a play by Uno Isamu
Cinematography
Watanabe Makoto
Editor
Kakesu Shuichi
Production Design
Yamada Hitoshi
Cast
Mizushima Kaori, Tamaki Koji