Luminous Woman

About the film

A burly hulk of a man (pro-wrestler Keiji Muto) makes his way from Hokkaido to the decrepit trash heaps of outer Tokyo in a quest to find his beloved fiancée, but meets a nightclub diva who has lost the ability to sing. When he finds himself pulled into the gladiator pits of a Tokyo nightclub, the mountain man agrees to fight in exchange for information on his lost love, yet also finds himself drawn to the various pulls of the big city. This unconventional love story employs powerful imagery in a daring attempt to visualise the contrast between people who live in concert with nature and those who live in urbanised civil society.

Japanese. English subtitles. 1 hour 58 minutes.

Directed by

Shinji Somai

Studio

Third Window Films

Distributed by

Third Window Films