The Secret Purple

  • Run time: 45 min
  • Premiere: 1991. January 1.

Fumie returns to her room where she lives alone as if she is escaping from someone. She immediately takes off the underwear she was wearing and washes it. You stink. She sniffs her washed panties, curious about what the stranger has just said to her. At the cinema where she works part-time, a colleague, a projectionist, stalks her, and Fumie's heart slowly begins to race. The film is a more eloquent and naked account of women's lives and their true feelings about menstruation. The film is a raw but lyrical portrayal of body odour, vomiting and other things that everyone tries to hide, as well as the fragile friendship between women, which leaves a strange aftertaste after watching.

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Camera

Taro Koga

Director of Photography

Crew

Mio Keira

Script

Directing

Mio Keira

Director

Lighting

Takei Toru

Lighting Artist

Hiroshi Okamoto

Lighting Artist

Sound

Shuichi Miura

Sound Mixer

Camera

Taro Koga

Director of Photography

Crew

Mio Keira

Script

Directing

Mio Keira

Director

Lighting

Takei Toru

Lighting Artist

Hiroshi Okamoto

Lighting Artist

Sound

Shuichi Miura

Sound Mixer