Location: PALAIS -1 Stand 23.01(Japan Booth)
Goodbye, Grandpa! ※first feature film
Drama,Black Comedy | 100 min | Japan | 2017 | director. Yukihiro Morigaki
CAST 岸井ゆきの Yukino Kishii 岩松了 Ryo Iwamatsu 光石研 Ken Mitsubishi 水野美紀 Miki Mizuno 美保純 Jun Miho
”21st Century version of Juzo Itami’s The Funeral”
Summer, Yoshiko receives a phone call about her grandfather's death when she is having sex with her boyfriend. Thus, the funeral of her grandfather begins with slovenly uncle, termagant aunt, shut-in cousin, and grandma who has dementia. No one cries at the funeral. Through accidents happening, Yoshiko sees feelings of her families that she hasn't noticed before and starts to think about "life" and "death". After, she makes a new step out to visit India.
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| New! SEVEN GIRLS ※first feature film Drama, History | 148 min | Japan | 2017 | director. David Miyahara
The absurd lives of seven prostitutes. After World War II, U.S. Occupation Forces was in charge of Japan. In Tokyo without hope and dignity, there were prostitutes lived their small lives. People were ridiculous jest being alive with no food and no expectation. Women lost their men in the front and lost their houses in hometown. To make a living, women became the “Pan-pan girls”, which were organized by the Japanese government to provide sexual services legally. The forgotten happiness and love that never existed…Being trifled with men’s ambitious, the girls sang with tears and danced with laughter, tried to live their fragile lives strongly in the city of debris. This is not a film that focus on misery or sexual issue but tells a message of being living. Living the everyday life, that is a wonderful thing but we might take it for granted these days. |
| PARKS Drama, Music, Fantasy | 118 min | Japan | 2017 | director. Natsuki Seta
Nippon Connection Frankfurt Taipei Film Festival
Haru (Mai Nagano) visits Jun (Ai Hashimoto)’s apartment to find Sachiko, Haru’s late father’s ex. Together they find Sachiko's family house but she has passed away. Her grandson, Tokio (Shota Sometani) finds a damaged reel-to-reel tape with a half song sung by Sachiko and Haru’s father. Tokio, Haru, and Jun decide to complete the song by themselves... trailer
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| Love and other Cults Black Comedy | 95 min | Japan | 2017 | director. Eiji Uchida
Udine Far East Film Festival FANTASIA New York Asia Film Festival
Ai (Sairi Ito) is sent to a cult commune by her religious maniac mother and lives there for seven years. After the cult is exposed by the police, Ai starts going to a normal school for the first time, but can’t fit in. Ryota (Kenta Suga) who is in love with Ai also wants to escape for a normal life. The two teens’ purity gets swallowed up by the urban jungle. A black comedy depicting lives of modern youth and their struggles in where there is no way out. trailer
Asia territories sales: SDP, Inc. Other territories sales: Third Window Films
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| Strange Tales of Love and Strangers Drama, Romance, Fantasy | 120 min | Japan | 2017 | director. Raita Kuramoto
Asia Summer Film Festival Barcelona
A Taiwanese girl Yuwen (Aining Yao) comes to a village of Fukushima to study abroad. She thinks falling-in-love is a stupid thing and the village land is unusually dry as Yuwen’s heart because of no rains. Yuwen struggles to speak Japanese but learns Japan culture and relationships from her host family and neighbors. As she opens her heart little by little, rain falls on the small village after a long time… trailer P |
| Eyes On Me Drama, Romance | 98 min | Japan | 2016 | director. Junichi Kanai
Living in a small town, Naoto (Hisashi Yoshizawa) lost his beloved wife few years ago and now runs a barbershop by himself. One day the blind girl Saki (Riko Masuda), who has learned calligraphy with Naoto’s wife while she was a kid, comes to visit this 40 years old man. Naoto feels that spending time with Saki gradually heals his emotional wounds. Giving her heart Naoto, Saki also feels positive to her future instead of grieving about her blindness. However at that time, Saki’s mother in prison suddenly contacts her for a visitation… trailer |
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