Heat Wave

Rin Jyoshima lost her father to gambling. Years later, having grown up in the Kosugi household, she falls into gambling herself, and the thing that finished her father closes around her life as well. The film gives gambling not as a personal weakness but as an order that draws a person in through the world around them. The account comes from the vein of Japanese cinema of 1991 that worked the bond between the underworld and the family. Debt, loyalty and the winning of a place all operate at once. The room the heroine has to decide in narrows as the story goes on. The film’s visual construction leans on traditional interiors and on tattoo. Kanako Higuchi and Tatsuya Nakadai appear in Hideo Gosha’s hundred and six minute Japanese film, completed in 1991.