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Himizu
MEANRANK
77/100
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 66, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 100.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A teenage boy named Yuichi lives a bleak existence, managing his family's boat rental business on a polluted lake while dealing with an abusive, gambling father and a neglectful mother. He clings to a simple dream of an ordinary life, which is shattered by his family's collapse and the oppressive atmosphere following a great earthquake. His despair turns into a violent, misguided quest for justice as he takes it upon himself to purge society of what he perceives as "unnecessary" people.
Details
- Director
- Sion Sono
- Writers
- Minoru Furuya, Sion Sono
- Studio
- Studio Three, Kodansha, GAGA Corporation
- Released
- 14 January 2012
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 130 min
- Box office
- $1.2M
- Awards
- 1 win, 0 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 1 →1 win from 1 nomination across 1 ceremony
| 68th Venice International Film Festival 2011 | Marcello Mastroianni Award | Shōta Sometani and Fumi Nikaidō | Winner |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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1 awards — Himizu
×| Marcello Mastroianni Award | Shōta Sometani and Fumi Nikaidō | Winner |