Kei Morikawa	...	(Director)
Kei Morikawa	...	(Writer)
Beni Itô	...
Nanami Kawakami	...
Lily Kuribayashi	...
Aki Morita	...
Takashi Naha	...
Kazuhiro Nakahara	...
Kentarô Sakai	...
Jin Satô	...
Akiyoshi Shibata	...
Takashi Shigematsu	...
Mariko Yoshimura	...
Shinji Kugimiya	...	Cinematographer

Comments: An evening in the ad-lib makeup room for a porn shoot. It's way underplayed, not at all raunchy (except for a few lines of dialog), so it's inviting (thanks mostly to the makeup artist, Aki Morita, who I wish I could call mom). This is one of those where you can't tell if the actors can't act or if they are doing well at acting like they can't really act. I think the 4 or 5 girls who get their makeup done are AV actresses in real life, so ....

Summary: Films that take the audience inside Japan’s huge and diverse porn industry have been appearing for decades. Veteran AV director Kei Morikawa has taken a fresh, briskly entertaining approach to this subject in his new film “Make Room.” Winner of the Grand Prix in the Fantastic Off-Theater Competition of this year’s Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival, the film unfolds from beginning to end in a room where five actresses put on makeup prior to filming their latest AV epic.

Not a single scene shows tussling on the futon. Instead the focus is on the lives and personalities of the actresses in the present getting-ready-for-work moment, with the director and other male staff playing supporting roles. The film’s rock-solid center is the make-up artist, Kyoko (Aki Morita), who is genuinely sympathetic to her charges, while intently focused on hustling them out of the room looking good — at least until the camera rolls.