Source: GAGA Corporation Official Movie Site: /esper-movie.gaga.ne.jp (Japan)
I am psychic! You are psychic! Everyone is psychic... but still virgin! Hot on the heels of his new movie, TAG (???????, Real Onigokko), master filmmaker Sion Sono (WHY DON`T YOU PLAY IN HELL?, TOKYO TRIBE) returns to the big screen with THE VIRGIN PSYCHICS (?? ???????????, Eiga Minna! Esupa Dayo!), another film full of laughs and love through the eyes of a virgin teenager who wishes to become a hero by saving the world with his suddenly acquired psychic power. Based on the manga by Kiminori Wakasugi (Detroit Metal City), the film is an adaptation of the TV series (also directed by Sono), which received 2013 Galaxy Honors for programs recommended. Shota Sometani, the winner of the Marcello Mastroianni Award at the Venice International Film Festival for his performance in HIMIZU (???, 2012), plays the geeky virgin psychic. Sometani previously starred in THE VIRGIN PSYCHICS television series as well as LESSON OF THE EVIL and the PARASYTE film series. The cast also includes Elaiza Ikeda (HIGH SCHOOL DEBUT) and Erina Mano (SPEC: CLOSE ?INCARNATION/REINCARNATION?, THE NEXT GENERATION -PATLABOR-, SHINJUKU SWAN, TAG). Sion Sono co-wrote the screenplay with THE VIRGIN PSYCHICS television series writer Shinichi Tanaka. The film`s music was composed by longtime collaborator Tomohide Harada (HIMIZU, COLD FISH, LOVE EXPLOSURE). Hajime Kanda (YAKUZA APOCALYPSE) is the Director of Photography. Synopsis A high-school student named Yoshiro Kamogawa (Shota Sometani) has never had the spotlight in his life and spends his days aimlessly. What only shines in his life is a girl named Sae Asami (Erina Mano) at his school. Even while being completely disregarded by her, he still dreams of becoming her true love in the future. One day, he receives a mind-reading psychic power. As he looks around, there seem to be more psychics born in the city, and somehow they are all virgins! One uses his psychokinetic power to fulfill his sexual desire, another turns into a flasher using teleportation ability... With the arrival of the psychics like Yoshiro, the city gets gradually infested with the erotic terrorism evoked by a mysterious group. Knowing he has never received any attention from the girl of his dreams, Yoshiro determines to use his power to save the world from this steamy chaos and show off what he has got to the love of his life!
About Director Sion Sono Sion Sono was born in Aichi, Japan in 1961. In 1990, his BICYCLE SIGHS (?????, Jitensha Toiki) premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival. Sono`s shocking film SUICIDE CLUB (??????, Jisatsu Saakuru, 2001) won the Jury Prize for Most Ground-Breaking Film at the Fantasia International Film Festival 2003. In 2009, LOVE EXPOSURE (??????, Ai no Mukidashi) won FIPRESCI Prize and Caligari Film Award at Berlin International Film Festival. His next film, COLD FISH (??????, Tsumetai Nettaigyo, 2011), world-premiered at Orizzonti in the Venice International Film Festival 2010, and GUILTY OF ROMANCE (??????, Koi no Tsumi, 2011) premiered at the Canne`s Directors` Fortnight 2011. In the same year, HIMIZU was world-premiered in Competition at Venice International Film Festival and the starring casts Shota Sometani and Fumi Nikaido garnered the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor or Actress. The Venice-premiered WHY DON`T YOU PLAY IN HELL? (???????, Jigoku de Naze Warui, 2013) won the People`s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival. The next year, the battle rap musical TOKYO TRIBE (????? ????, Tokyo Toraibu, 2014) premiered at Toronto International Film Festival.
Credits Japanese Theatrical Release: September 4, 2015 Cast Yoshiro Kamogawa: Shota Sometani Miyuki Hirano: Elaiza Ikeda Sae Asami: Erina Mano Terumitsu Nagano: Makita Sports Yosuke Enomoto: Motoki Fukami Naoya Yabe: Reiya Masaki Takako Akiyama: Megumi Kagurazaka Takahiro Asami: Ken Yasuda Maryjun Takahashi Ami Tomite Rosa Sahel Anna Konno Mizuki Hoshina Ai Shinozaki Airi Simizu Rika Hoshina Crew Director and Writer: Sion Sono Original Comic Author: Kiminori Wakasugi Music: Tomohide Harada Director of Photography: Hajime Kanda Writer: Shinichi Tanaka © 2015 "The Virgin Psychics" Film Partners
