★ 2022 Tokyo International Film Festival - World Premiere
★ 2023 Asian Film Awards - Winner of Best Supporting Actor
Inspired by the seminal semi-autobiographical novel by Makoto Takayama. The first Japanese production with both an LGBTQ+ inclusive director and an intimacy choreographer, Egoist features two of Japan’s biggest movie stars in very compromising positions.
Ryohei Suzuki nearly sparkles with elegance, taste and personal charm as the protagonist, Kosuke. A wealthy magazine editor with a close circle of artistic, bon vivant friends, Kosuke is surprised when he falls for his new personal trainer, Ryuta (Hio Miyazawa). A financially strapped high-school dropout, Ryuta juggles a number of jobs to support his doting single mother. And then the unthinkable happens.
An editor of a fashion magazine, Kosuke, had kept his homosexuality secret before meeting Ryuta, a personal trainer who is also involved in sex work to support his mother. The two are attracted to each other and share an intimate relationship – until Ryuta’s sudden departure.
Director: Daishi Matsunaga
Cast: Ryohei Suzuki, Hio Miyazawa
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Classification
Group A – Suitable for all ages
Group B – Not suitable for audiences aged under 13
Group C – Not suitable for audiences aged under 18, and restricted for those aged under 13
Group D – Prohibited for audiences aged under 18
Pornography – Prohibited for audiences aged under 18 and subject to the regulation of a specific law (Law no. 10/78/M).
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About the Director
Daishi Matsunaga was born in Tokyo in 1974. He was featured in Water Boys and other works as an actor. After that, as a director, he completed the documentary film Pyuupiru which records 8 years of contemporary artist Pyuupiru who has a gender identity disorder. In 2015, his first feature film Pieta in the Toilet won several awards including Best New Director in The Yokohama Film Festival. In 2018, he participated in the second installment of the "Asian Three-Fold Mirror" project launched by the Japan Foundation and the Tokyo International Film Festival as one of the up-and-coming directors in Asia and his work Hekishu was screened at the Tokyo International Film Festival. His film Hanalei Bay adapted from Haruki Murakami's original work also hit the big screen in the same year. Egoist is his latest film.