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Love/Juice
DIRECTOR: Kaze Shindo
Japan 1:18:00 35mm Color Japanese 
 Producers: Kazutoshi Wadakura, Tsuyoshi Sugino, Chikako Nakabayashi
Kyoko is selfish and girlish; Chinatsu is glum and boyish. They flirt and get high at the disco and live together in a tiny red house. When they run out of money, they work as bar hostesses dressed as Playboy bunnies. Kyoko becomes infatuated with a goldfish shop and its taciturn shopboy, while Chinatsu can't seem to keep any girlfriends, perhaps because of her open desire for Kyoko. When she sobs, "Why am I a girl?" Kyoko comforts her, then conveniently forgets the implications of her kindness. Their fascination with the pet shop piranha and idle chitchat about love and cannibalism provide glimpses of the bestiality in their liaison. Meanwhile, two gift goldfish swim around in a tumbler as Chinatsu and Kyoko's relationship moves inexorably beyond simple friendship, jealousy and even love. In her first narrative feature, the twenty-four year Shindo— granddaughter of the great Japanese director Kaneto Shindo (ONIBABA, NAKED ISLAND)— shows her grandfather's talent for the depiction of everyday life with an animalistic undercurrent. Frako Loden
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