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    TITLE : SKIN DEEP
    DIRECTOR: Midi Onodera
    PRODUCER: Daruma Pictures
    CAST: Natsuko Ohama, Keram Malicki-Sanchez and Dana Brooks
   
SYNOPSIS: Award-winning director Alex Koyama is poised to make her next feature — a film about love, obsession and trendy tattoos. When Alex places an ad for a production assistant in a tattoo magazine, young, transgendered Chris responds. Alex sees potential for research and enters into a disturbing power-game with Chris. Ignoring the warnings of friends and her lover, Alex allows Chris’ infatuation with her to spiral out of control. The consequences are tragically drawn out as the drama of Alex’s own life supercedes her created fiction. SKIN DEEP peels away the layers of a person’s identity as it leads the viewer into worlds where people are never what they appear to be. | Photos, Downloads, Extras >
 
     
  1995 | 85 minutes | colour | 35 mm | feature film | English original version | French dubbed version. |  

 

     
“A wholly original take on obsession and identity ...
stylish ... uncompromisingly provocative ... “
-Bill Brownstein, THE GAZETTE
     
“SKIN DEEP makes a shrewd assessment of both what it takes to be a filmmaker and of a chic, brittle world of sexual minorities and ambiguities.”
-Kevin Thomas, LOS ANGELES TIMES
             
 
 
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