Mari ASATO 安里麻里
Girls For Independence
Nippon Digital ½
A dance school on an island at the southernmost tip of Japan is, in fact, a female fighter’s training school. The girls are not only professionally trained as singers and actors to perform in Tokyo, but as spies with the mission to turn the island into an independent kingdom.
About Mari ASATO
安里麻里
Mari ASATO was born in Okinawa in 1976. She started her career in 1999 as a photographer under Kiyoshi KUROSAWA during the filming of BARREN ILLUSIONS. After working as an assistant director, among others for Hiroshi TAKAHASHI and Akihiko SHIOTA, she made her feature film debut in 2004 with GIRLS FOR INDEPENDENCE, which was screened at Nippon Connection Film Festival in 2005, alongside her short film THE BOY FROM HELL. Since then, she has directed several feature films, mostly in the genre field, with an emphasis on horror.