Liverleaf
New York Asian Film Festival 2018
June 29 - July 15, 2018
Haruka, a high school student who has just moved to a small town, endures relentless bullying. Only the handsome and honorable Mitsuru takes her side, further enraging her tormentors.
Q&A with director Eisuke Naito
This inspired manga adaptation creeps up on you and packs a wallop. Haruka, a high school student who has just moved to a small town, endures relentless bullying with the stiffest upper lip since Kaji Meiko in the Female Prisoner Scorpion series. Only the handsome and honorable Mitsuru takes her side, further enraging her tormentors. After the hazing escalates to unfathomable proportions, Haruka metamorphoses—and shit gets real. Director Naito elicits nuanced characterizations from his talented young cast while deftly unspooling a pressure-cooker narrative bursting with madness, twists, and catharses. North American Premiere
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