Official website for Ryûhei Kitamura's LOVEDEATH

The official website for Ryûhei Kitamura's LoveDeath is online. The movie had its world première at the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival (Yûbari Kokusai Fantasutikku Eigasai) - "YIFFF" for short - on February 24th of last year.

The screenplay for LoveDeath was written by Kitamura and Isao Kiriyama, based on the short manga "69" by Tsutomu Takahashi. The movie stars (listed order corresponds to columnwise order on cast page of official website) Shinji Takeda, NorA, Kôhei Ôtomo, Susumu Terajima, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Naomasa Musaka, Toshiyuki Kitami, Izam, Masakatsu Funaki, Kaori Kawamura, Hideo Sakaki, Tarô Kanazawa, Shû Ehara, Hitoshi Ozawa, Yinling of Joytoy (Inrin obu Joitoi), Leo Morimoto (Morimoto Reo), Yumi Yoshimura, Nao Ômori, Nicholas Pettas (Nikorasu Petasu), Saori Yagi, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Yôko Mori, Kanji Tsuda, Chiharu Kawai, Chuck Wilson (Chakku Wiruson), Kanako Fukaura, Aya Sugimoto, Miho Yoshioka, Shigeru Izumiya, Riki Takeuchi, and Eiichirô Funakoshi.

Here's a description of LoveDeath from the YIFFF website: "A man and a woman are together on the 'Chrysalis Day', the fatal day everything in your life will be decided depends on how you spend the day. A violent man holding pure love, Sai and a stunningly beautiful playgirl, Sheila. While Sheila flees with a large sum of money, she is chased by a cool but violent gang, crazy killers and an out of control cop. No one can stop Sai and Sheila's love runaway. This is a story about an extremely crazy and cool couple. Ryuhei Kitamura returned to independent film field with an even more powerful film than his previous film Godzilla Final Wars. The original story is written by Tsutomu Takahashi, who worked with Kitamura for Alive and Sky High. Shinji Takeda, stared in the film and other brilliant and unique casts take the film to the highest level. The violent erotic comedy dances on the screen one after another. You can't take your eyes off the screen!"

For more information on LoveDeath, see ScreenAnarchy's third, second, and first articles on it.

LoveDeath official website
LoveDeath production stills gallery #1
LoveDeath production stills gallery #2
YIFFF: LoveDeath