Floating down the Chicago River in a canoe with his roommate, Sundance veteran Masahiro Sugano was struck with what would become the catalyzing image of his debut feature “Second Moon.”
“She was all bundled up and looked like a Santa Claus,” Sugano recalled. “The image stayed with me for a long time.”
He said he was reading ?The Unbearable Lightness of Being’ at the time, “and I wanted to pursue a film about how we view relationships. These ideas got mixed up together. It was difficult to put into a coherent story, but I think we managed.”
Andre Ing stars in the “neo-Yakuza romantic farce” as an agent of the underground libertine group “Art of Love,” who betrays his group’s principles when he falls for a Japanese girl (Jennifer Shin) and finds himself at odds with his boss (Jim Finn).
