The Mars Canon
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| The Mars Canon | |
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| Directed by | Shiori Kazama |
| Written by | Tomoko Ogawa Syotaro Oikawa |
| Distributed by | Argo Pictures |
| Release date(s) |  September 28, 2002 |
| Running time | 121 min. |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
The Mars Canon (火星のカノン Kasei no Kanon) is a Japanese film made in 2002. Themes of the film include adultery and homosexuality, as Mars connotes both fighting and sexual intercourse.
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[edit] Synopsis
The film explores the relationship problems of two couples, Kohei and Kinuko, and Manabe and Hijiri, and the solutions they try to devise as a way out. Kohei and Kinuko, despite their age differences, seem like a happy pair, but there is an insurmountable distance between them. Kohei is married to another woman, and Kinuko, though she knows he will never divorce, can't bring herself to break off the relationship and start anew. Manabe and Hijiri, meanwhile, start off happily enough, but eventually their passion begins to wane as Manabe starts looking to other women for sex. Hijiri, feeling rejected, moves into an apartment next door to Kinuko, where she plots to break up the mismatched couple to her own advantage.
[edit] Cast
- Kinuko Takeuchi - Makiko Kuno
- Hijiri Tokita - Mami Nakamura
- Kohei Deguchi - Fumiyo Kohinata
- Tatsuya Manabe - Kiyohiko Shibukawa
- Arimi Deguchi - Eri Hayasaka
- Fumiyo Komatsu - Haruku Shinozaki
- Ryuichi Hiroki
[edit] Awards
The film won the 2001 Tokyo International Film Festival Asian Film Prize.
