About Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2025: Rude To Love
Momoko Hase (Noriko Eguchi) is a housewife leading what seems like a pleasant life: a former office worker who now works part-time as a soap maker, she keeps her house in tip-top condition and pours herself into taking good care of her husband Mamoru (Kotaro Koizumi). On top of all this, she endeavours to get along with her mother-in-law, who also lives on the property and has a rather stress-inducing image of the ideal daughter-in-law.
Despite these efforts to live a perfect life, however, Momoko is gradually dragged into negativity: her mother-in-law’s assistance feels like overattachment, her husband is indifferent to her expressions of affection and her unruly neighbours keep dirtying the apartment by leaving rubbish nearby. Her irritation reaches boiling point when she discovers that Mamoru is having an affair, and finally Momoko is driven to insanity.
Unnerving and suspenseful, Rude to Love is an incisive unmasking of the madness that lurks within everyday life, studying the gradual and painful breakdown of a once-thriving marriage through a gripping human drama.
Based on the original novel Shuichi Yoshida "Rude to Love" published by Shinchosha
©2013 Shuichi Yoshida/Shinchosha ©2024 "Rude to Love" Film Production Committee
In collaboration with Japan Foundation. Supported by Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation. Sponsors in Kind: SUQQU, Athletia, Calbee, Pentel, and Clearspring.
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MAC’s cinema programme has been generously supported by BFI Film Audience Network and Film Hub Midlands.
