The official website for the live-action film adaptation of Yoshiharu Tsuge's manga short story Lust in the Rain (Ame no Naka no Yokujō) released a new trailer and poster image for the film on Thursday. The trailer highlights the relationship of Yoshio, Imori, and Fukuko.
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Image via X/Twitter Account of the live-action film Ame no Naka no Yokujō
© 2024 「雨の中の慾情」製作委員会
Image via Comic Natalie
© 2024 「雨の中の慾情」製作委員会
The film participated in the competition section of the 37th Tokyo International Film Festival on October 30, November 3 and November 4.
The film will hit theaters in Japan on November 29.
The film stars Ryō Narita as Yoshio, Eriko Nakamura as Fukuko, Gō Morita as Imori, and Naoto Takenaka as Oyaji. Other cast members include Tomomitsu Adachi, Yuki Nakanishi, Yūya Matsuura, Makoto Tsuchi, Kaori Momo, Kū Ijima and Li Xing. Shinzo Katayama directed the film, and wrote the script with Takamase Ōe.
The film's story revolves around Yoshio, a poor and struggling manga artist living in North Town. He is sent by Oyaji, the owner of his apartment, who is also involved in other shady businesses, to help a novelist named Imori move in and meet a recently divorced woman named Fukuko. Yoshio is immediately fascinated by her beauty, even though she already knows someone else. Meanwhile, Imori sets up an advertising agency, borrowing the name of a larger company from wealthier South Town to sell his novel. Yoshio ended up helping Imori's efforts, and somehow Imori and Fukuko came to live with Yoshio.
Tsuge published the short manga in Hokutoh Shoboh's Yagyō magazine in 1981.
Tsuge was a pioneer of gekiga (“dramatic image”) comics, a genre named by Yoshihiro Tatsumi in 1957 to describe an alternative manga style that emphasized realism and was aimed at adults. . He is perhaps best known for his 1968 manga Neji-Shiki (“Screw-Style”), a surreal story about a man wandering through devastated postwar Japan.
Teruo Ishii directed a live-action film adaptation of Neji-Shiki in 1998. Panik House released the film in North America under the title Screwed.
Drawn & Quarterly is releasing Yoshiharu Tsuge's complete works as a seven-volume set. Ryan Holmberg is translating the works.
Source: Ame no Naka no Yokujō live action movie website, Natalie Manga
