Dawn of the Felines

A story of three escort girls living under the sky in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. They work at same escort service while feeling lonely in their urban life. Masako is a heavy debtor. Takada, her important customer, is out of employment and socially withdrawn. Rie, a housewife, handles an old widower Kaneda. Yui is a single mom with two kids, but she’s into a young guy and comes to neglect her children. Enormously negative emotions such as dislike, hate and quarrel swirl, while women find paradox love and vitality essential to life by heading to anywhere but here. Like a documentary film, Shiraishi satirizes women in poverty, which is currently a social problem in Japan. (Nikkatsu)