Kisspeptin Chronicles
恋脳Experiment (Ren Nou Experiment)
Japan | 2023 | Drama, Female, Coming-of-age | 110min | Debut Feature
Director: Shiika Okada
Scriptwriter: Shiika Okada & Kazune Okada
Cinematographer: Yoshinori Kumakura
Sound: Shinichi Toyoda
Sound Designer: Daisuke Yokoyama
Editing: Koichi Takahashi
Production Design: Shinpei Inoue
Music: Toe ITOI
Cast: Kirara Inori, Amon Hirai, Ayumu Nakajima
Synopsis
Can we ever be freed from the "curse of love" that dictates "women must be pretty and fall in love"?
A humorous and at times affecting chronicle of an artistic girl’s life and loves from elementary school, through university, into young adulthood.
Festival&Award
2024 Seoul International Women's Film Festival - Discovery Competition
2024 Five Flavours Asian Film Festival
- Asian Cinema Competition
Hong Kong Asian Film Festival
- Wide Angle
Okada Shiika
Okada Shiika graduated from the Department of Intermedia Art, Tokyo University of the Arts, and the Department of Animation at Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Film and New Media. In addition to making animation, she also creates music and writes scripts. Her 5-minute animation, Maternal Awakening, won the Special Jury's Award at the 43rd Pia Film Festival 2021. “Kisspeptin Chronicles” is her first feature film.