Strangers in the City (Japanese: 行きずりの街, Hepburn: Yukizuri no Machi) is a 2010 Japanese thriller film directed by Junji Sakamoto, starring Toru Nakamura and Manami Konishi. It is based on the novel of the same title by Tatsuo Shimizu.
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Cast
Tōru Nakamura as Hatano
Manami Konishi as Masako
Nao Minamisawa as Yukari
Yosuke Kubozuka as Nakagome
Renji Ishibashi as Ikebe
Shun Sugata as Omori
Kyoko Enami as Masako's mother
Arata Iura as Masako's boyfriend
Tetta Sugimoto as Hatano's former colleague
Eriko Sato as Hatano's former colleague
Mitsuki Tanimura as Yukari's friend
Release
Strangers in the City premiered at the Busan International Film Festival on October 11, 2010. It also screened as the North American premiere at the Japan Cuts on July 17, 2011.
Reception
Mark Schilling of The Japan Times criticized Strangers in the City, noting that the director Junji Sakamoto and the screenwriter Shoichi Maruyama could not decide what the film is about. Meanwhile, Russell Edwards of Variety said, "[Manami] Konishi exhibits a powerful range of suppressed emotions as Hatano's former child bride-cum-Tokyo bargirl."