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Japanese poster courtesy of Kadokawa Pictures. © 2014 KADOKAWA

A prestigious girls’ school... with a torture club?! This month, Kadokawa Pictures will release THE TORTURE CLUB (????????????????), a live-action adaptation of Monthly Young Ace`s sadomasochistic romance manga series Chotto Kawaii Iron Maiden (The Kinda Cute Iron Maiden) by Makoto Fukami and ??AlfLayla. The story follows a secret club at an all-girls` school where students engage in daily physical and mental torture as training to become government interrogators and spies.

STORY

Yuzuki Muto (Noriko Kijima) has been accepted to the prestigious private girls’ high school, St. Anesty Academy, that she never dreamed of attending. One spring day -- with cherry blossoms in full bloom -- she attends the entrance ceremony with high hopes and expectations... only soon to find herself getting “escorted” by two students to a basement room used by the school-approved Torture Club, where they practice and master the art of torture. With her hands and feet bound together, Yuzuki is coerced to join the club by the club manager, Yuri Kobashi, and member, Maika Shinzaki. Suddenly another Torture Club member appears... Aoi Funaki (Haruna Yoshizumi), a stunningly beautiful upperclassman who Yuzuki fell in love with at first sight on the day of her entrance exam. Yuzuki’s rigorous training now begins! Her affections for Aoi grow ever stronger, but there is the hard and fast “no romance” rule in the Torture Club...

Noriko Kijima as Yuzuki Muto. Photo courtesy of Kadokawa Pictures. © 2014 KADOKAWA

CREDITS

Market Screening: May 20, 2014 (Cannes Marché du Film) International Premiere: Friday, July 18, 2014 (Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival) Japanese Theatrical Release Date: Saturday, July 19, 2014 Running Time: 97 Minutes Rating: R-15+ Cast Yuzuki Muto: Noriko Kijima Aoi Funaki: Haruna Yoshizumi Yuri Kobashi: Yuki Mamiya Maika Shinzaki: Mika Yano Reiko Hayama Shungiku Uchida Minatsu Yano Nami Motoyama Kanako Mochida Staff Director: Kota Yoshida Original Story: Chotto Kawaii Iron Maiden by Makoto Fukami and ??AlfLayla (published by Kadokawa Shoten Co., Ltd.) Screenplay: Kota Yoshida Executive Producer: Shinichiro Inoue Production: Takeshi Yasuda Planning: Tsuyoshi Kikuchi Producers: Ujikatsu Omori, Hidehisa Chiwata, Yuichi Shibahara Cinematographer: Masashi Seki Lighting: Saeko Naruke Art Director: Shuji Yamashita Costumes: Masae Miyamoto Hair and Makeup: Naomi Oikawa Editor: Seishi Narumi Sound Effects: Yoshio Nakamura Torture Advisor: Hana Tsuki Music: Fumi Matsumoto Theme Song: "Waking Up" by Natsumi Shirahoshi (YOSHIMOTO R and C CO.,LTD) Film Production: Dub, Kadokawa Daiei Studio Distributor: Kadokawa © 2014 KADOKAWA

Haruna Yoshizumi as Aoi Funaki. Photo courtesy of Kadokawa Pictures. © 2014 KADOKAWA

Photo courtesy of Kadokawa Pictures. © 2014 KADOKAWA

Photo courtesy of Kadokawa Pictures. © 2014 KADOKAWA

Yuki Mamiya as Yuri Kobashi. Photo courtesy of Kadokawa Pictures. © 2014 KADOKAWA

Photo courtesy of Kadokawa Pictures. © 2014 KADOKAWA

Photo courtesy of Kadokawa Pictures. © 2014 KADOKAWA

Photo courtesy of Kadokawa Pictures. © 2014 KADOKAWA

Photo courtesy of Kadokawa Pictures. © 2014 KADOKAWA

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