Tetsuo's a loser. As a director he had an indie hit years ago and keeps his head above water with cheap soft sex amateur videos, which he sells to the Yakuza. Tetsuo's life consists in the exploitation of his friends, his family and the students of his acting school. There he meets Minami, a naive country girl who wants to become an actress and Ken, a screenwriter. With your help, will he make a second attempt at a career? Director Eiji Uchida shows in a grotesquely banal way the impossibility of a romantically transfigured film artist existence in the performance-oriented Japanese metropolis of Tokyo. "Lowlife Love" is a snappy, black-humorous film, which with its exaggeration and satirical interludes explores the limits of the bearable." (programmkino.de)
Tetsuo's a loser. As a director he had an indie hit years ago and keeps his head above water with cheap soft sex amateur videos, which he sells to the Yakuza.
Tetsuo's life consists in the exploitation of his friends, his family and the students of his acting school. There he meets Minami, a naive country girl who wants to become an actress and Ken, a screenwriter. With your help, will he make a second attempt at a career?
Director Eiji Uchida shows in a grotesquely banal way the impossibility of a romantically transfigured film artist existence in the performance-oriented Japanese metropolis of Tokyo.
"Lowlife Love" is a snappy, black-humorous film, which with its exaggeration and satirical interludes explores the limits of the bearable." (programmkino.de)