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A boy high school student "Sora Kikuchi" is a bullied child. Teasing Sora is parents who have only "Takemi" a classmate his group and the thing of it and entrance into a school of higher grade on the head. It is because he informed on bullying to school secretly, and a certain evening and Sora are violated by Takemi and others. Sora looks at a strange dream, being knocked. It is the dream teased even if itself who committed suicide falls to hell. "...It is teased wherever it may be in. ...Wherever it may be in, it is hell there." Which Sora decided desertion from hell by the dream serving as a cause!!! It fights with a bully, it jumps over an automatic ticket gate, and a favorite child is long-telephoned... Sora is which ascends to heaven soon!!! However, happiness is also a moment. Sora is found in Takemi and others who plans revenge...

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I want to long-telephone a favorite woman. ...Low budget movie which drew dynamically the stoic wish of the bashful high school student who does not very have things by the digital sound full load "LIVE AND LET DIE " It was first shown by 12nome cinema allnight held in Box-Higashinakano , and enthusiastic support was gained from the part. The amateurs to whom the "Ookami" from which this becomes the first work does not have experience of movie work as for the staff -- gathering -- although it is inexperienced, I want to carry out" movie work -- it is only the impulse and was made in guerrilla.

Sora thinks. "it not being teased if it dies" and -- although suicide is committed -- death -- future generations -- it is teased also on a boundary "It is teased although it dies. It already fights and does not spread! "Sora acts of its will only after it is produced. Sure enough, Sora is about the ability to escape from hell !?

Yukihiro Okano promoted to the leading role is 18 years old those days. Brilliant performance which cannot be regarded as a movie first performance is announced. It was large-extolled from the spectator. Moreover, that this movie stopped at Director Ryota Sakamaki's eyes also became the cause which appears on Sakamaki's film moon overflowing. Nana Kito is a dancer, chooses the role of the heroine. The splendid dance is announced in a tale. A youth businessman's Akira Chiba participates in the role of a rival of Sora. For this movie, the quantity of no less than 4kg of weights was increased, and noted performance like a great actor "Robert De Niro" was announced.The musician of various fields who plays an active part in the indies participates in a sound track. The "LIVE AND LET DIE " which Kengo Kamata of a rock band "BLISTER" composed especially is heaping up a reckless run of Sora which smolders.Takehiro Terauchi, the cg creator who is free and works, took charge of VFX. Some spectators' do liver was extracted at many cg shots.Otherwise, it was independent and individual each one who continues activity concentrated. While the field which each makes elated is involved exquisitely, it pushes on toward ending with Sora!!!

The great work of a low budget which can never be made from today's Japanese motion-picture world. It is "LIVE AND LET DIE "!!!!!
"LIVE AND LET DIE"
2000 / JAPAN / mini-DV / color / stereo / 52min
producer , director , screenplay , dp , editor / OOKAMI = KENTAROH MORIKAWA

cast / YUKIHIRO OKANO , NANA KITOU , AKIRA CHIBA
SHIN TAKAHASHI , RUMI MORIYA
AYAKA WATANABE , REIKO KATO , HIROKI ITOU
music / KENGO KAMATA
AKIRA CHIBA , ASAHI , SIVA , PLANET
JAPANESE , KEKKAKU , SISTER , YOUKO TORIYABE
vfx / TAKEHARU TERAUCHI , RYOUHEI TANAKA
production designer / HIDEMASA NARUSHIMA
assistant director / SHINICHI UDAGAWA , YUUSUKE MIYOKAWA
2d animation / MINORU YAMAOKA
make up / AYAKO TANAKA NARU
casting / MASAAKI HIRAYAMA
sp thanx to / MISHIMA , TRUNK THEATER
JANIS2 , TOUHOU ANNOUNCE SCHOOL
TOMOFUMI OOKUBO , HARU UNO
TAMOTSU KAWABE , AYAKO AKAO
TOSHIHIKO OMOTE , 12EYES
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