Katsuya Matsumura's BEAU-TI-FUL? (KI-RE-I?), a.k.a. "Kirei? - The Terror of Beauty", w/ Yukiko Okamo

Thanks to ScreenAnarchy's own logboy for bringing to my attention the fact that Media Blasters is scheduled to release Katsuya Matsumura's Beau-ti-ful? (Ki-re-i?) on DVD in the U.S. on November 15th, apparently under the title "Kirei? - The Terror of Beauty". The movie premièred at the Shibuya Ciné la sept in Tokyo on August 21st of last year, and - as was previously reported here on ScreenAnarchy - was released on VHS and DVD in Japan on March 25th of this year. There's a synopsis for it in English here on the website of international sales agent Gold View (Gôrudo Byû).

The screenplay for Beau-ti-ful? was written by Matsumura and Rusher Ikeda (Rasshâ Ikeda), based on Kei Yuikawa's "Kirei" from her short story collection Memai. (Yuikawa also wrote the eponymous story on which Suzuki Matsuo's "Yoru no shitasaki", in the omnibus movie Female (Fîmeiru), was based.) The movie's principal cast is as follows: Yukiko Okamoto (she's also in Hisayasu Satô's "Imomushi" in the omnibus horror movie Ranpo jigoku, and was in Takahisa Zeze's Secret Journey (Yuda) - one of the four movies in Euro Space's Eros Bancho Series (Erosu banchô shirîzu)), Asuka Kurosawa (she's also in Takahisa Zeze's Mrs., and was in Yôichirô Hayama's Dead Waves (Shiryôha)), Kôta Kusano, Miki Asakura, Mami Nakamura, and Fumina Hara (she was in Osamu Fukutani's The Last Supper (Saigo no bansan)).

Matsumura previously directed the All Night Long (Ôru naito rongu) pentalogy: All Night Long (Ôru naito rongu), All Night Long 2 (Ôru naito rongu 2), All Night Long 3: The Final Chapter (Ôru naito rongu 3: saishûshô), All Night Long R (Ôru naito rongu R) [first movie listed], and All Night Long: Initial O (Ôru naito rongu: inisharu O). He also directed Concrete-Encased High School Girl Murder Case (Joshikôsei konkurîto-zume satsujin-jiken) [viewer discretion is advised] - a controversial movie from 1995 that was based on the same real-life murder case as Hiromu Nakamura's 2004 movie Concrete (Konkurîto).

Those interested in Beau-ti-ful? may also wish to read the ScreenAnarchy articles on Yûji Tajiri's Harami: shiroi kyôfu, Takaaki Hashiguchi's Kuchisake, Tamakichi 'Anal' Anaru's Tumbling Doll of Flesh (Niku daruma), and Fuji Kikaku's six Onna harakiri sakuhinshû DVDs - the third one of which includes Masami 'Merzbow' Akita's Lost Paradise ('Shitsurakuen': jôbafuku onna harakiri).