MANRIKI

[Machine Translation] The film "MANRIKI," created by the filmmaking unit "Team Manriki" consisting of actor Takumi Saito, comedian Nagano, and musician and actor Nobuaki Kaneko, is finally available on Blu-ray! The film is based on Nagano's original idea, "inspired by the discomfort I felt when I appeared as a guest at a fashion event," and is filled with the creative essence of producer Takumi Saito and director Yasuhiko Shimizu. This is an ambitious work that incorporates various keywords that are not bound by any genre, including suspense, horror, and comedy. The film has been the talk of the town at the 23rd Puchon International Fantastic Fantastic Film Festival and other film festivals around the world, and had its world premiere in Puchon in June 2019, where Takumi Saito, Nagano, SWAY, and Yasuhiko Shimizu made stage greetings. In addition to the making-of featurette, four short films produced by Team Manryoku are included. The film is designed to allow viewers to fully enjoy the creative worldview of the film. --The film is a good example of how a model with plastic surgery has more work than a model without. A fledgling fashion model decides to correct her small face in order to get work. She asks a beautiful plastic surgeon who runs a beauty clinic to perform a small face correction treatment, and the model undergoes a transformation. The model is transformed by the face-stylist's bizarre philosophy and vise.... After eating zaru soba (buckwheat noodles), the face-shaping artist leaves the clinic and heads for a new place of ambition. A hootenanny and an old man who play beauty pageants in a backstreet. The sudden encounter between them and the face-lifter accelerates the story. Light and darkness. Subjectivity and objectivity. Hypocrisy and necessary evil. Beauty and ugliness. We are exposed between the vise.

*Rated 15-and-over.

Special Feature / Bonus Track: making-of, event footage, short episodes (subject to change)

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俳優の斎藤工、お笑い芸人の永野、ミュージシャンで俳優の金子ノブアキらによる映像制作ユニット"チーム万力"が手掛けた映画『MANRIKI』が遂にBlu-rayで登場! 「ファッションイベントにゲスト出演したときに感じた違和感から着想した」という永野の原案・原作に、プロデューサー・齊藤工、監督・清水康彦のクリエイティブエッセンスが詰め込まれた今作は、顔デカ、モデル、小顔矯正、日本文化、合コンで鼻が取れる女、サスペンス、ホラー、そしてコメディと、ジャンルにとらわれない様々なキーワードが盛り込まれた意欲作。第23回プチョン国際ファンタスティックファンタスティック映画祭ほか、世界各地の映画祭で話題を呼び、2019年6月にはプチョンにてワールドプレミア上映が行われ、斎藤工、永野、SWAY、清水康彦が舞台挨拶を行った。メイキング映像のほか、チーム万力制作の短編を4本収録。独創的な世界観を存分に楽しめる仕様になっている。 ――整形しているモデルの方が仕事が多い。駆け出しのファッションモデルが仕事欲しさに小顔矯正を決意。美容クリニックを営む美しき整顔師に小顔矯正施術を依頼し、モデルは変身を遂げる。整顔師の猟奇的哲学と万力によって・・・。ざる蕎麦を食べたのち、整顔師はクリニックを去り、新たな野望の地へ向かう。場末の街で美人局をするフーテンと年増。彼らと整顔師が突如遭遇することにより、物語は加速してゆく。光と闇。主観と客観。偽善と必要悪。美と醜。我々は、万力の間で暴かれる。

映像特典(予定): メイキング映像、イベント映像、チーム万力短編集「LOHAS」「宮本」「ZERO」「DEATH BIKE」