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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

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2024 Seoul International Women's Film Festival - Discovery Competition

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2024 Five Flavours Asian Film Festival

- Asian Cinema Competition

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Hong Kong Asian Film Festival

​- Wide Angle  

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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.

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