The Hungry Lion (film)

The Hungry Lion (Japanese: 飢えたライオン) is a 2017 Japanese drama film directed by Takaomi Ogata [ja], starring Urara Matsubayashi, Atomu Mizuishi, Mariko Tsutsui, Nanami Hidaka [ja] and Sakiko Kato.

The Hungry Lion
Directed by	Takaomi Ogata [ja]
Written by	Takaomi Ogata Fuki Ikeda
Produced by	Takaomi Ogata Hiroyuki Onogawa
Starring	Urara Matsubayashi Atomu Mizuishi Mariko Tsutsui Nanami Hidaka [ja] Sakiko Kato
Cinematography	Kenichi Negishi
Edited by	Yumi Sawai
Music by	Makoto Tanaka
Production company	Paranoid Kitchen
Distributed by	Geta Films
Release dates	27 October 2017 (2017-10-27) (Tokyo International Film Festival) 15 September 2018 (2018-09-15) (Japan)
Running time	78 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Cast

• Urara Matsubayashi as Hitomo Sugimoto
• Atomu Mizuishi as Hiroki Fujigawa
• Mariko Tsutsui as Yuko Sugimoto
• Nanami Hidaka [ja] as Nanami Oda
• Sakiko Kato as Moe Sasaki
• Tomomi Sugai as Misaki Kinoshita
• Miku Uehara [ja] as Asuka Sugimoto
• Daikichi Sugawara [ja] as Tetsuya Kondo
• Toshimitsu Kokido [ja] as Tsuyoshi Hosono
• Makoto Shinada [ja] as Kohei Nishijima
• Gaku Hosokawa [ja] as Atsushi Togawa

Release

The film premiered at the 2017 Tokyo International Film Festival on 27 October.^[1]

Reception

Justin Lowe of The Hollywood Reporter called the film a "timely critique that will doubtless fall on deaf ears."^[2]

Mark Schilling of The Japan Times rated the film 4 stars out of 5 and wrote that with "cool restraint and precision" it "illustrates the process by which the internet destroys, celebrates and forgets a young life touched by scandal."^[1]