American Film Market (AFM): Official website for Tôru Matsuura's SYNESTHESIA (GIMÎ HEBUN), w/ Yôs
The official website for Tôru Matsuura's Synesthesia (Gimî hebun - or "Gimme Heaven", if you prefer back-transliterations) is online.
Distribution rights for Synesthesia are being offered for sale by Shochiku Co. Ltd. (Shôchiku K.K.) at this year's American Film Market (AFM) in Santa Monica, California. The movie is being screened at the Laemmle Monica on Wednesday November 2nd at 5:00 p.m. and Sunday November 6th at 8:45 a.m..
The screenplay for Synesthesia was written by Yûji Sakamoto. The movie's principal cast apparently is as follows: Yôsuke Eguchi, Masanobu Andô, Aoi Miyazaki, Yuriko Ishida, Ryûhei Matsuda, Hijiri Kojima, Minoru Torihada, and Toshiyuki Kitami.
Below are an introduction and a synopsis for Synesthesia from this page for the movie on Shochiku's website.
Introduction:
[synesthesia / synaesthesia] (sin'is-the'zhea) n.
A condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color. Synesthesia is "abnormal" only in being statistically rare. "Synesthesia" is a sensibility which cannot be understood by other people. An incident brings two lonely souls who possess this unsolved puzzle of mind to meet, leading to strange events and a serial murder case.
Story:
Shinsuke has been going on with his uneventful daily life, with "synesthesia" being the only symptom differentiating him from others. He keeps the dark depth of his mind to himself, but feels distant even from his best friend and his fiancee. Mari has also been feeling deep solitude from experiencing synesthesia which she feels she is unable to share with anyone. Her parents have passed away, and her adoptive parents mysteriously die, one by one. Picasso, the "dealer of death" comes into scene as mysterious incidents and murder occur one after another. Shinsuke suspects that Mari is being followed by Picasso, and that she may be the next victim. Shinsuke and Mari's fateful meeting upturns their lives and leads them to tragedy.
Synesthesia official website
American Film Market: Synesthesia
