I am psychic! You are psychic! Everyone is psychic… but still virgin!
Hot on the heels of his new movie, TAG, master filmmaker Sion Sono returns to the big screen with THE VIRGIN PSYCHICS, another film full of laughs and love through the eyes of a virgin teenager who wishes to become a hero by saving the world with his suddenly acquired psychic power. Based on the manga by Kiminori Wakasugi (Detroit Metal City), the film is an adaptation of the TV series (also directed by Sono), which received 2013 Galaxy Honors for programs recommended.
Shota Sometani, the winner of the Marcello Mastroianni Award at the Venice International Film Festival for his performance in HIMIZU, plays the geeky virgin psychic. Sometani previously starred in THE VIRGIN PSYCHICS television series as well as LESSON OF THE EVIL and the PARASYTE film series. The cast also includes Elaiza Ikeda (HIGH SCHOOL DEBUT) and Erina Mano (SPEC: CLOSE ～INCARNATION/REINCARNATION～, THE NEXT GENERATION -PATLABOR–, SHINJUKU SWAN, TAG).
Sion Sono co-wrote the screenplay with THE VIRGIN PSYCHICS television series writer Shinichi Tanaka. The film’s music was composed by longtime collaborator Tomohide Harada (HIMIZU, COLD FISH, LOVE EXPLOSURE). Hajime Kanda (YAKUZA APOCALYPSE) is the Director of Photography.
Synopsis
A high-school student named Yoshiro Kamogawa (Shota Sometani) has never had the spotlight in his life and spends his days aimlessly. What only shines in his life is a girl named Sae Asami (Erina Mano) at his school. Even while being completely disregarded by her, he still dreams of becoming her true love in the future.
One day, he receives a mind-reading psychic power. As he looks around, there seem to be more psychics born in the city, and somehow they are all virgins! One uses his psychokinetic power to fulfill his sexual desire, another turns into a flasher using teleportation ability…
With the arrival of the psychics like Yoshiro, the city gets gradually infested with the erotic terrorism evoked by a mysterious group. Knowing he has never received any attention from the girl of his dreams, Yoshiro determines to use his power to save the world from this steamy chaos and show off what he has got to the love of his life!
About Director Sion Sono
Sion Sono was born in Aichi, Japan in 1961. In 1990, his BICYCLE SIGHS premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival. Sono’s shocking film SUICIDE CLUB won the Jury Prize for Most Ground-Breaking Film at the Fantasia International Film Festival 2003. In 2009, LOVE EXPOSURE won FIPRESCI Prize and Caligari Film Award at Berlin International Film Festival. His next film, COLD FISH, world-premiered at Orizzonti in the Venice International Film Festival 2010, and GUILTY OF ROMANCE premiered at the Canne’s Directors’ Fortnight 2011. In the same year, HIMIZU was world-premiered in Competition at Venice International Film Festival and the starring casts Shota Sometani and Fumi Nikaido garnered the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor or Actress. The Venice-premiered WHY DON’T YOU PLAY IN HELL? won the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival. The next year, the battle rap musical TOKYO TRIBE premiered at Toronto International Film Festival.
Credits
Japanese Theatrical Release: September 4, 2015
Cast
Yoshiro Kamogawa: Shota Sometani
Miyuki Hirano: Elaiza Ikeda
Sae Asami: Erina Mano
Terumitsu Nagano: Makita Sports
Yosuke Enomoto: Motoki Fukami
Naoya Yabe: Reiya Masaki
Takako Akiyama: Megumi Kagurazaka
Takahiro Asami: Ken Yasuda
Maryjun Takahashi
Ami Tomite
Rosa Sahel
Anna Konno
Mizuki Hoshina
Ai Shinozaki
Airi Simizu
Rika Hoshina
Crew
Director and Writer: Sion Sono
Original Comic Author: Kiminori Wakasugi
Music: Tomohide Harada
Director of Photography: Hajime Kanda
Writer: Shinichi Tanaka
© 2015 “The Virgin Psychics” Film Partners
Ogun Bat is a Japanese superhero created by Takeo Nagamatsu in 1931 and is considered to be the first Japanese superhero. The anime ran 52 episodes between April 1st 1967 and March 23rd Read more
Released in December 1980, Zork: The Great Underground Empire - Part I aka Zork I was an interactive fiction video game written by Marc Blank, Dave Lebling, Bruce Daniels and Tim Read more
The CW has released a new extended trailer for The Flash, offering up some new footage from several upcoming episodes and teasing the unmasking of Zoom:
Zoolander is back but a lot has happened since 2001! Rest assured the Ben Stiller comedy features familiar faces and a few new ones with plenty to get you excited. Read more
At a dinner party with their wives, NASA scientist Dr. Keith Ritchie (Tony Huston) reveals to his colleague Dr. Curt Taylor (John Agar) that he has secretly been in communication Read more
In Italy during World War II, an American military patrol discovers a spaceship that has crash-landed in the woods, along with its alien crew. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm9fnNfLg8M A nearby Nazi unit also Read more
Zone Fighter was a tokusatsu science fiction/superhero television series produced by Toho Company Ltd. It aired from April 2nd 1973 to September 24th 1973, with a total of 26 episodes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdhcjsVLDQY The series follows Read more
Zone 414 is an upcoming American science fiction thriller film written by Bryan Edward Hill and directed by Andrew Baird. The film stars Guy Pearce, Matilda Lutz, Jonathan Aris, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, Olwen Fouéré, Colin Salmon, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Read more
It is the final episode of Season 1, and as expected following the somewhat calmness of last week's episode this week is about to go off the scale. Our crew Read more
Episode 5 of Zomboat! is the penultimate episode of Season 1 and it gave the audience a chance to catch their breath before the grand finale. Instead of the fast Read more
In Zomboat! Episode 4 we discover that even a shopping trip can be hazardous to your health in post-apocalyptic Birmingham. With the boat moored and apparently safe Amar (Ryan McKen) Read more
After our diversion last week our Zomboat crew begin travelling in the right direction and end up back where they first got on the boat. This also happens to be Read more
Zomboat! burst onto our screens last week and while we loved it we noted that it felt "a bit rushed with lots crammed in." As Episode 2 washed over us Read more
Debuting on ITV2 in the UK, Zomboat! is filmed in the 2.35:1 widescreen ratio of most zombie movies and answers the life long question of what would happen if you Read more
When the government's latest crime deterrent, obmoz, goes completely off the rails and starts to destroy everything from the underfunded super team Planetronix to the president himself, who ya gonna Read more
Homemade horror-comedy feature Zomblogalypse received its UK premiere at Dead Northern Film Festival - in association with Fangoria and Shudder - at City Screen York on 26th September 2021. The Read more
Tony Todd is back in an all new zombie movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBlWz-n-nec When the world is in shambles, plagued by a zombie outbreak, only the strong will survive, but just how Read more
Columbus, Tallahasse, Wichita, and Little Rock move to the American heartland as they face off against evolved zombies, fellow survivors, and the growing pains of the snarky makeshift family... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL6NTQhEqn4 Read more
In Zombieland 2: Double Tap, Columbus, Tallahasse, Wichita, and Little Rock move to the American heartland as they face off against evolved zombies, fellow survivors, and the growing pains of Read more
Directed by Chris Watson and distributed by Troma Entertainment, Zombiegeddon begins as Satan creates a human-like race called zombies. When the zombies begin taking over the world, dirty cops Jeff Read more
Brett Summers
Founded Cult Faction in 2014. Some would describe him as a teacher, writer, dream weaver, and visionary... some would not...
More Stories
Terrence Hardiman – The Demon Headmaster
Preview: Yu Yu Hakusho – 30th Anniversary Bluray Box Set
The Reaper Man trailer released