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==Plot== | ==Plot== | ||
The panelists of a talk show discussing the upcoming 2020 Tokyo Olympics suddenly pivot to trashing Ryoichi Suzuki, a 33-year-old former rock musician now toiling thanklessly as a clerk for a company making parts for musical instruments. Watching the show in his apartment, he rushes out the door in terror. On the subway, every passenger stares at him; strangers taunt him in the restroom; the automatic door at his job refuses to open for him; his coworkers cover his desk with "hazardous waste" labels. Only the reserved Yuko Terashima takes pity, tearing off the label on his back and offering him pills for his stomachache. On his lunch break, he buys a turtle from a street vendor. | |||
Wearing his old rock outfit at home, Ryoichi plays the turtle a tune and insists he is more than the loser people perceive him as. Searching for a name for the turtle, he thoughtlessly settles on "Pikadon" (the onomatopoeia in Japanese for a nuclear explosion) after an interviewee on the talk show mistakes it for the name of a kaiju. He plays The Game of Life with the turtle and finds it traverses the path to success perfectly... until the final fork in the road, where it crawls to the pills Yuko gave him. He reveals that he is in love with her, prompting the talk show panelists to mock him again. Changing the channel and seeing a report on Nippon Stadium, the arena built for the Olympics, he vows to perform a concert there. He writes down the steps to success on a piece of cardboard, akin to the Game of Life, sets down "buildings" on the sides of the path, and encourages Pikadon to walk down it. | |||
The next day, Ryoichi brings Pikadon to work. Commuters still stare at him, but doors and elevators open for him now. Yuko joins him in the elevator, and he hears her listening to rock music, but he is too petrified to speak to her. At home, he constructs a more elaborate board, which culminates in Pikadon looming over a toy baseball field representing Nippon Stadium. Time passes and Ryoichi grows even more attached to Pikadon—but when Yuko notices the turtle, she sets off a chain of mockery that extends even after he flees his workplace. Despite her quiet assurances, he flushes it down a toilet in a blind panic. He instantly regrets it, but Pikadon is gone. Wandering in a daze, he lunges for a guitar with a body partially shaped like a turtle, but the owner kicks him away. | |||
Pikadon's voyage through the Tokyo sewers takes it to a subterranean workshop full of abandoned pets and toys, all of whom can speak. A homeless man named Pa greets him, then turns his attention to a damaged Robosapien toy who washed up at the same time. The toys rehash old arguments; Sune, a cat, is disgusted at the humans who threw them away, while the doll Maria clings to the hope that her child still wants her, as her parents were the ones who discarded her. Despite Sune's pessimism, Pa quickly revives the little robot. Before going to bed, Pa attempts to give Pikadon a piece of candy that will allow it to talk. | |||
Mourning Pikadon, Ryoichi is suddenly struck with inspiration for a song, which he develops by wandering the streets and looking at signs. Now dog-sized, Pikadon awakens Pa and the others by wordlessly singing the same song. Pa realizes he accidentally had Pikadon ingest a type of candy that will let it grant wishes. The others are aghast that he kept such a wonder from them, but he warns them that wishes can compound and grow out of control, as Pikadon is starting to do. Still, he vows to make the wish most important to them come true before the year ends. | |||
==Staff== | ==Staff== | ||
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|Motoki Fukami|Toru Tanaka / Ryoichi's coworker | |Motoki Fukami|Toru Tanaka / Ryoichi's coworker | ||
|Toru Tezuka|Scientist | |Toru Tezuka|Scientist | ||
|Toshiyuki Nishida| | |Toshiyuki Nishida|Pa | ||
|Ichiro Ogura|Ryoichi's coworker | |Ichiro Ogura|Ryoichi's coworker | ||
|Erina Mano|Schoolgirl | |Erina Mano|Schoolgirl | ||
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|Gen Hoshino|PC-300 (voice) | |Gen Hoshino|PC-300 (voice) | ||
|Shoko Nakagawa|Maria (voice) | |Shoko Nakagawa|Maria (voice) | ||
|Inuko Inuyama| | |Inuko Inuyama|Sulkie (voice) | ||
|Ikue Otani|Pikadon (voice) | |Ikue Otani|Pikadon (voice) | ||
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==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
*Two longtime ''[[Pokémon]]'' actors have self-referential roles in ''Love & Peace'': Ikue Otani (Pikachu) voices Pikadon, while Inuko Inuyama (Meowth) voices the cat toy | *Two longtime ''[[Pokémon]]'' actors have self-referential roles in ''Love & Peace'': Ikue Otani (Pikachu) voices Pikadon, while Inuko Inuyama (Meowth) voices the cat toy Sulkie. | ||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160303202738/http://love-peace.asmik-ace.co.jp/ Official site (archived)] | *[https://web.archive.org/web/20160303202738/http://love-peace.asmik-ace.co.jp/ Official site (archived)] | ||
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Love & Peace (ラブ
Plot
The panelists of a talk show discussing the upcoming 2020 Tokyo Olympics suddenly pivot to trashing Ryoichi Suzuki, a 33-year-old former rock musician now toiling thanklessly as a clerk for a company making parts for musical instruments. Watching the show in his apartment, he rushes out the door in terror. On the subway, every passenger stares at him; strangers taunt him in the restroom; the automatic door at his job refuses to open for him; his coworkers cover his desk with "hazardous waste" labels. Only the reserved Yuko Terashima takes pity, tearing off the label on his back and offering him pills for his stomachache. On his lunch break, he buys a turtle from a street vendor.
Wearing his old rock outfit at home, Ryoichi plays the turtle a tune and insists he is more than the loser people perceive him as. Searching for a name for the turtle, he thoughtlessly settles on "Pikadon" (the onomatopoeia in Japanese for a nuclear explosion) after an interviewee on the talk show mistakes it for the name of a kaiju. He plays The Game of Life with the turtle and finds it traverses the path to success perfectly... until the final fork in the road, where it crawls to the pills Yuko gave him. He reveals that he is in love with her, prompting the talk show panelists to mock him again. Changing the channel and seeing a report on Nippon Stadium, the arena built for the Olympics, he vows to perform a concert there. He writes down the steps to success on a piece of cardboard, akin to the Game of Life, sets down "buildings" on the sides of the path, and encourages Pikadon to walk down it.
The next day, Ryoichi brings Pikadon to work. Commuters still stare at him, but doors and elevators open for him now. Yuko joins him in the elevator, and he hears her listening to rock music, but he is too petrified to speak to her. At home, he constructs a more elaborate board, which culminates in Pikadon looming over a toy baseball field representing Nippon Stadium. Time passes and Ryoichi grows even more attached to Pikadon—but when Yuko notices the turtle, she sets off a chain of mockery that extends even after he flees his workplace. Despite her quiet assurances, he flushes it down a toilet in a blind panic. He instantly regrets it, but Pikadon is gone. Wandering in a daze, he lunges for a guitar with a body partially shaped like a turtle, but the owner kicks him away.
Pikadon's voyage through the Tokyo sewers takes it to a subterranean workshop full of abandoned pets and toys, all of whom can speak. A homeless man named Pa greets him, then turns his attention to a damaged Robosapien toy who washed up at the same time. The toys rehash old arguments; Sune, a cat, is disgusted at the humans who threw them away, while the doll Maria clings to the hope that her child still wants her, as her parents were the ones who discarded her. Despite Sune's pessimism, Pa quickly revives the little robot. Before going to bed, Pa attempts to give Pikadon a piece of candy that will allow it to talk.
Mourning Pikadon, Ryoichi is suddenly struck with inspiration for a song, which he develops by wandering the streets and looking at signs. Now dog-sized, Pikadon awakens Pa and the others by wordlessly singing the same song. Pa realizes he accidentally had Pikadon ingest a type of candy that will let it grant wishes. The others are aghast that he kept such a wonder from them, but he warns them that wishes can compound and grow out of control, as Pikadon is starting to do. Still, he vows to make the wish most important to them come true before the year ends.
Staff
Staff role on the left, staff member's name on the right.
- Directed by Sion Sono
- Written by Sion Sono
- Executive producers Hirofumi Shigemura, Shuichi Nagasawa, Hidetoshi Yamamoto, Naoto Miyamoto
- Produced by Atsushi Moriyama, Masao Teshima, Eiichi Kamagata, Tsutomu Yanagimura
- Line producer Takeshi Suzuki
- Music by Yasuhiko Fukuda
- Theme song "Slow Ballad"
- Performed by RC Succession
- Written and composed by Kiyoshiro Imawano, Mikan
- Arranged by Katsu Hoshi, RC Succession
- Cinematography by Nobuya Kimura
- Edited by Junichi Ito
- Production design by Tsuyoshi Shimizu
- 1st assistant directors Noshin Kaze, Chihiro Maruya
- Director of special effects Kiyotaka Taguchi
- 1st assistant director of special effects Masayoshi Takesue
Cast
Actor's name on the left, character played on the right.
- Hiroki Hasegawa as Ryoichi Suzuki
- Kumiko Aso as Yuko Terashima
- Kiyohiko Shibukawa as Manager Satoru Inagawa
- Eita Okuno as Shu Naito (Revolution Q)
- Makita Sports as Section chief of Ryoichi's company
- Motoki Fukami as Toru Tanaka / Ryoichi's coworker
- Toru Tezuka as Scientist
- Toshiyuki Nishida as Pa
- Ichiro Ogura as Ryoichi's coworker
- Erina Mano as Schoolgirl
- Megumi Kagurazaka as Lily's mother
- Daikichi Sugawara as Reporter
- Kazuki Namioka as Ryoichi's neighbor
- Miyuki Matsuda as Matsui / Record company producer
- Ryosuke Maniwa as Amano / Ryoichi's coworker
- Soichiro Tahara as TV host
- Hakase Suidobashi, Shinji Miyadai, Daisuke Tsuda, Ken Mogi as Pundits
- Dai Hasegawa as Dead (Revolution Q)
- Yukimasa Tanimoto as Nega (Revolution Q)
- IZUMI as Jane (Revolution Q)
- Kazunori Yokoo
- Gen Hoshino as PC-300 (voice)
- Shoko Nakagawa as Maria (voice)
- Inuko Inuyama as Sulkie (voice)
- Ikue Otani as Pikadon (voice)
Appearances
Monsters
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Production
Kiyotaka Taguchi's tokusatsu unit filmed Pikadon's trek through Shinjuku from January 8, 2014, to January 14.[2] They filmed the real Yasukuni Street area he travels through from the same angle, allowing real cars to be composited in front of him.[2] The sheer size of the Tokyo Metropolitian Government Building in relation to Pikadon required a 1/25th scale portion to be constructed for the monster to smash, whereas the collapse of the towers was accomplished with a separate model built at a smaller scale.[2]
Gallery
- Main article: Love & Peace/Gallery.
Soundtrack
- Main article: Love & Peace/Soundtrack.
Theatrical releases
- China - April 19, 2015 (Beijing International Film Festival)
- Japan - June 26, 2015
- South Korea - July 18, 2015 (Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival)
- Canada - July 26, 2015 (Fantasia International Film Festival); October 22, 2015 (Toronto After Dark Film Festival)
- France - September 4, 2015 (L'Étrange Festival)
- Austria - September 22, 2015 (/slash Filmfestival)
- United States - September 30, 2015 (Fantastic Fest); November 9, 2015 (San Diego Asian Film Festival); July 16, 2016 (Japan Cuts)
- United Kingdom - October 11, 2015 (BFI London Film Festival)
- Scotland - February 24, 2016 (Glasgow Film Festival)
- Ireland - April 9, 2016 (Japanese Film Festival)
- Sweden - October 25, 2015 (Lund International Fantastic Film Festival)
- Argentina - November 1, 2015 (Mar del Plata Film Festival)
- Poland - November 18, 2015 (Five Flavours Film Festival)
- Italy - November 22, 2015 (Torino Film Festival)
- Serbia - March 2, 2016 (Belgrade Film Festival)
- Netherlands - April 21, 2016 (Imagine Film Festival)
- Germany - May 25, 2016 (Nippon Connection Film Festival)
- Mexico - June 25, 2016 (Riviera Maya Film Festival)
U.S. release
Love & Peace played at least three American film festivals: Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas (September 30, 2015); the San Diego Asian Film Festival (November 9, 2015); and Japan Cuts in New York City (July 16, 2016). Chicago Filmmakers also screened it on January 8 and 10 in 2016.[3]
Box office
Love & Peace grossed ¥53 million during its Japanese theatrical run.[1]
Reception
Love & Peace has a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 8 reviews.[4]
Video releases
King Records DVD/Blu-ray (2015) [Standard Edition][5]
- Region: 2 (DVD); A (Blu-ray)
- Discs: 1
- Audio: Japanese
- Subtitles: Unknown
- Special features: None
King Records DVD/Blu-ray + DVD (2015) [Collector's Edition][6]
- Region: 2 (DVD); A (Blu-ray)
- Discs: 2
- Audio: Japanese
- Subtitles: Unknown
- Special features: 16-page photo book, postcards, stickers, two behind-the-scenes featurettes, trailers (85 minutes total)
- Notes: The featurettes and trailers are included on a DVD regardless of the format of the feature film.
Third Window Films DVD/Blu-ray (2016)
- Region: 2 (DVD); B (Blu-ray)
- Discs: 1
- Audio: Japanese (Dolby Digital 5.1 for the DVD; DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 for the Blu-ray)
- Subtitles: English
- Special features: Behind-the-scenes featurette on the film's kaiju attack sequence (23:51)
Videos
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Trivia
- Two longtime Pokémon actors have self-referential roles in Love & Peace: Ikue Otani (Pikachu) voices Pikadon, while Inuko Inuyama (Meowth) voices the cat toy Sulkie.
External links
References
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