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Guilty of Romance

Year:

2011

Duration:

144 min | 112 min (international version)

Genres:

Drama | Horror

IMDB rate:

6.8

Director:

Shion Sono

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Details

Country: Japan

Release Date: 2011-09-30

Cast

Actor

Character

Miki Mizuno

Makoto Togashi

Mitsuko Ozawa

Megumi Kagurazaka

Izumi Kikuchi

Kazuya Kojima

Shoji

Satoshi Nikaido

Masao Yoshida (as Satoshi Nikaidô)

Ryûju Kobayashi

Kaoru

Shingo Gotsuji

Kazuo Kimura

Motoki Fukami

Maki Martini

Chika Uchida

Eri Doi

Marie Machida

Mari (as Marî Machida)

Ryô Iwamatsu

Supermarket manager

Hisako Ôkata

Shizu Ozawa

Kanji Tsuda

Yukio Kikuchi

Cynthia Cheston

Prostitute

Mae Ohtsuka

Suwaru Ryû

Keisuke Urasaka

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Trivia

The story is loosely based on the 1997 murder of Yasuko Watanabe, who was a senior economic researcher at TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company), but was also a prostitute at night in the Shibuya district of Tokyo.

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What are the differences between the International Version and the Extended Version?

Guilty of Romance exists in two very different versions. The one that's approx. 30 minutes shorter aka the "International Version" plus a longer one called "Japanese Extended Version". Mainly with regard to the running time of the two previous movies, most reviews refer to the shorter version as adapted for Western regions when it comes to content and performance. Shion Sono on the other hand has often emphasized that this version is his prefered one; the Director's Cut so to speak. And if you examine it carefully, you'll probably come to the conclusion that it makes perfect sense. Mainly, the Extended Version contains extended scenes that elaborate the yet very clear storyelements more detailed. Furthermore, the character of the female cop Kazuko Yoshida has much more screentime here, the audience gets to know her better. The Extended Version deals with her free-spirited sexuality in terms of cheating on her husband. A detailed comparison between both versions with pictures can be found here.