After her assured and quirky debut film “Jeux De Plage” part homage to French (and broadly European) cinema, part comedy of errors, presented at the 2019 edition of Japan Cuts, filmmaker Aimi Natsuto chooses to explore a much somber theme for her sophomore work, but treating the subject matter with the same confident and constructive ways she displayed in her previous one.
Saga Saga is screening at Japan Cuts
A young woman in a white tunic wanders through the tall trees of a silent forest during the opening titles; she is 28-year-old Kyoko (Rena Matsui) in one of her recurrent dreams. She is back to her hometown of Ureshino, in Saga Prefecture, Kyushu, after a period of time working in the film industry in Tokyo as an actress but we soon understand – as she goes through a job interview for a humble clerk position – that it is a past she wants to move on from.
Saga Saga is screening at Japan Cuts
A young woman in a white tunic wanders through the tall trees of a silent forest during the opening titles; she is 28-year-old Kyoko (Rena Matsui) in one of her recurrent dreams. She is back to her hometown of Ureshino, in Saga Prefecture, Kyushu, after a period of time working in the film industry in Tokyo as an actress but we soon understand – as she goes through a job interview for a humble clerk position – that it is a past she wants to move on from.
- 7/29/2023
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Graduate student Aiko (Rena Matsui) has always had low self-esteem and not much of a social life because of a conspicuous birthmark on her face. When her life story as featured in a book is to be adapted into film, she falls for the director Tobisaka (Ayumu Nakajima) who accepts her as she is. [Source: Jfdb]
A romance based on a 2013 novel by Naoki Prize-winner and author of “Narratage”, Rio Shimamoto. Directed by Yuka Yasukawa (Dressing Up), this film received its world premiere at the Tokyo International Film Festival in October 2021.
Theatrical release in Japan: September 16, 2022.
A romance based on a 2013 novel by Naoki Prize-winner and author of “Narratage”, Rio Shimamoto. Directed by Yuka Yasukawa (Dressing Up), this film received its world premiere at the Tokyo International Film Festival in October 2021.
Theatrical release in Japan: September 16, 2022.
- 7/15/2022
- by Suzie Cho
- AsianMoviePulse
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