Lust in the Rain

Katayama Shinzō / Japan

Screening

Cinemes Girona

07-11-2025 / 21:45 h.

Film Information

Year: 2024

Duration: 132

Language: VOSE

Genre: Drama, Romance

Synopsis

A struggling manga artist, Yoshio encounters a newly widowed Fukuko while helping his cranky old landlord move her out of her house. He is immediately bewitched by her beauty, but soon learns she already has another man. A cagey would-be novelist named Imori, he ropes Yoshio into a dubious sales scheme. When the scheme falls through, Yoshio puts the now desperate couple up in his tiny apartment and spies on them. But the story takes a turn and takes us through more mind-bending changes with the same cast of main characters in different guises.

Director

Katayama Shinzō (1981) is a Japanese director born in Osaka. He went to Tokyo to attend a film school founded by director Nakamura Genji. Starting in 2004 he worked as an assistant director. His 2018 feature debut Siblings of the Cape and his 2021 thriller Missing were both based on true incidents. His latest film, Lust in the Rain (2024), featured in the Udine Far East Film Festival 2025.