A Snake of June

Rinko Tatsumi (Asuka Kurosawa) is a suicide hotline worker resigned to a life of unhappiness until she receives a package from a blackmailer. Through the increasingly vulgar acts of exhibitionism her blackmailer forces upon her, she learns to shed the social restrictions and repression dominating her life. Shot on black-and-white film and tinted a monochromatic blue, Shinya Tsukamoto’s A Snake of June is a visual feast. Filled with shaky, hand-held camerawork, voyeuristic close-ups, and near-constant rain, Tsukamoto creates a damp and cold erotic thriller that explores sexual dynamics, transformation, and releasing one's inner desires.

Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.

2002 | 77 min. | Japan | Color | Japanese with English subtitles | Rated R | DCP 

DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Shinya Tsukamoto 

WITH: Asuka Kurosawa, Yuji Kotari, Shinya Tsukamoto, Susumu Terajima