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DVD cover for Ambiguous (2003)
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Directed by | Toshiya Ueno |
Produced by | Nakato Kinukawa Kazuhito Morita Kyōichi Masuko |
Written by | Hidekazu Takahara |
Starring | Hidehisa Ebata Noriko Murayama Nikki Sasaki Minami Aoyama |
Cinematography | Yasumasa Konishi |
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Kokuei
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Distributed by | Shintōhō Eiga |
Release date
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December 9, 2003 |
Running time
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63 min. |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Ambiguous (曖昧 Aimai?) aka Waisetsu Netto Shūdan Ikasete!! (猥褻ネット集団 いかせて!!?) and Group Suicide: The Last Supper (集団自殺 最後の晩餐 Shūdan Jissatsu: Saigo no Bansan?) is a 2003 Japanese Pink film directed by Toshiya Ueno. It was chosen as Best Film of the year at the Pink Grand Prix ceremony.
A diverse group of people, all with troubles in their daily lives, meet online and decide to commit suicide together. Isolated from society at large, they form a physical bond as the appointed time approaches.
Anglophone pink film scholar Jasper Sharp notes that there are two different audiences for contemporary pink films: The traditional pink theater-goer who is generally interested in seeing sex on the screen, and the devotees of pink cinema represented by such publications as P*G magazine and its website. As with many of Kokuei's pink films, Ambiguous did not prove very marketable for the traditional softcore porn audience, in part because of its downbeat subject matter. However, when looked at as a film which happens to include sex scenes—Kokuei's approach to the pink genre—Sharp writes Obscene Internet Group "stands as one of the most genuinely insightful and of-the-moment films produced within the Japanese independent sector in its year."