is a 2002 Japanese film directed by
Shiori Kazama
is a Japanese name, Japanese Grammatical gender#Personal names, feminine Japanese given name, given name.
Possible writings
Shiori can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
*栞, "bookmark / guide"
*撓, "lithe"
*詩織, "p ...
. Themes of the film include
adultery and
homosexuality, as
Mars connotes both fighting and sexual intercourse.
Plot
The film explores the relationship problems of two couples, Kohei and Kinuko, and Manabe and Hijiri, and the solutions they try to devise as a way out. Kohei and Kinuko, despite their age differences, seem like a happy pair, but there is an insurmountable distance between them. Kohei is married to another woman, and Kinuko, though she knows he will never divorce, can't bring herself to break off the relationship and start anew. Manabe and Hijiri, meanwhile, start off happily enough, but eventually their passion begins to wane as Manabe starts looking to other women for sex. Hijiri, feeling rejected, moves into an apartment next door to Kinuko, where she plots to break up the mismatched couple to her own advantage.
Cast
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Makiko Kuno as Kinuko Takeuchi
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Mami Nakamura
is a Japanese therapist and former actress.
Career
Nakamura debuted in Genjiro Arato's ''The Girl of the Silence'' in 1995. She starred in Ryuichi Hiroki's 2000 film, ''Tokyo Trash Baby''. She also appeared in Hiroki's another film, ''River''.
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as Hijiri Tokita
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Fumiyo Kohinata as Kohei Deguchi
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Kiyohiko Shibukawa as Tatsuya Manabe
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Eri Hayasaka
Eri may refer to:
People
* Eri (biblical figure)
* Eri (given name), a Japanese feminine given name, including lists of people and fictional characters
* Eri (king), the progenitor of the Umu-Eri and Umu-Nri-Igbo ancient Nigerian city-states
* ...
as Arimi Deguchi
*Haruku Shinozak as Fumiyo Komatsu
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Ryuichi Hiroki
Awards
The film won the Asian Film Award at the 2001
Tokyo International Film Festival held October 27-November 4, 2001.
Release
The film was presented at the
Berlin International Film Festival on February 12, 2002. It was screened at the 24th
PIA Film Festival on July 1, 2002 and was released theatrically in Japan on September 28, 2002.
References
External links
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The Mars Canon Official Site
2002 films
Japanese LGBT-related films
Lesbian-related films
2000s Japanese films
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