Wet Weekend

Wet Weekend
Wet Weekend
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Japanese name
Kanji	濡れた週末
Revised Hepburn
Transcriptions
Revised Hepburn	Nureta Shumatsu
Directed by	Kichitaro Negishi
Written by	Fumio Kōnami
Starring	Junko Miyashita; Ako
Production; company	Nikkatsu
Release date	September 22, 1979;
Running time	71 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Wet Weekend (濡れた週末, Nureta Shumatsu) is a 1979 Japanese film in Nikkatsu's Roman porno series, directed by Kichitaro Negishi and starring Junko Miyashita.

Synopsis

Miyashita plays an office clerk who is having an affair with her married boss. Since he refuses to leave his wife, Miyashita and another couple plan to kidnap his daughter to collect a ransom.^[1]

Cast

Junko Miyashita as Shimako Maruyama
Aoi Nakajima (中島葵) as Noriko Goto
Junichiro Yamashita (山下洵一郎) as Junichiro Goto
Ako as Tokiko Kazama

Background

The Weisser's, in their book Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films, remark that many critics saw similarities between this work and Akira Kurosawa's 1960 film The Bad Sleep Well.^[1]

Awards and nominations

4th Hochi Film Award^[2]

Won: Best Actress - Junko Miyashita

1st Yokohama Film Festival^[3]

Won: Best Supporting Actress - Ako
9th Best Film^[4]

References

^ ^1.0 ^1.1 Weisser, Thomas; Yuko Mihara Weisser (1998). Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films. Miami: Vital Books: Asian Cult Cinema Publications. pp. 498–499. ISBN 1-889288-52-7.
^ 報知映画賞ヒストリー (in Japanese). Cinema Hochi. Retrieved 2010-01-18.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
^ 第1回ヨコハマ映画祭１９７９年日本映画個人賞 (in Japanese). Yokohama Film Festival. Retrieved 2010-01-18.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
^ １９７９年度日本映画ベストテン (in Japanese). Yokohama Film Festival. Retrieved 2010-01-18.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)

External links

Wet Weekend at IMDb
濡れた週末 (in Japanese). JMDB.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)

[weisser498-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Weisser, Thomas; Yuko Mihara Weisser (1998). Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films. Miami: Vital Books: Asian Cult Cinema Publications. pp. 498–499. ISBN 1-889288-52-7.

[2] 報知映画賞ヒストリー (in Japanese). Cinema Hochi. Retrieved 2010-01-18.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)

[3] 第1回ヨコハマ映画祭１９７９年日本映画個人賞 (in Japanese). Yokohama Film Festival. Retrieved 2010-01-18.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)

[4] １９７９年度日本映画ベストテン (in Japanese). Yokohama Film Festival. Retrieved 2010-01-18.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)

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