Husband’s Legs [Director: Kimi YAWATA]
Created by
Kimi YAWATA
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I believed my husband would always belong to me—until he met that leg.
"While working in advertising production at TOHOKUSHINSHA FILM CORP., she has continued to develop her own narrative films.
Her previous works include ""Beard and Raincoat"" and ""Wife's Power Outage"".
| Production： | Acrobat Film Inc. |
| Ran NAGAI： | Sumire SATO |
| Kei NAGAI： | Jun Hashimoto |
| Exective Producer： | Yoshinobu NOMA |
| Producer： | KODANSHA Cinema Lab. |
| Running Time： | 24min. |
produced by
KODANSHA Cinema Creators’ Lab. 3rd winning short film pitch.
Synopsis
The husband gives a name to a mannequin’s leg. His love for “Kazumi” soon turns obsessive, eventually surpassing his feelings for his wife. An “aberration” brought into their cold, deteriorating marriage exposes the true nature of their relationship in this human suspense drama.
Director’s Statement
We lie while thinking of someone else, conceal ourselves, and still find ourselves reaching for some form of truth.
Though this story grew out of fetishism, what I am ultimately portraying is a couple.
Living with another person is something that feels ordinary in this world.
And yet, it is a deeply strange and tender act—at once absurd, unequal, and unbalanced.
Still, why do people choose to live with someone else?
This is the question I have embedded within this story.
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