Japan/Korea
Dir. Yamasaki Juichirō
Japan 2022, 97’
Subtitles: English
A small town in the mountains of western Japan, Maniwa. Chang-su, a former Olympic jockey for the South Korea national team, burdened with huge debts due to his father’s failed business, works at a quarry site. He lives with Minami and her infant daughter, who fled her husband and his family seven years ago. Meanwhile, Yamabuki, a highschool girl who lost her mother and lives with her policeman father, begins silent standing protests spontaneously at a crossroad, thinking of issues beyond the ocean. Unbeknown to them, the lives of Chang-su, Yamabuki and other townspeople quietly begin to intersect.
Screenings
Kino Kameralne Cafe on September 18 at 1 p.m.
Yamasaki Juichirō
Born 1978 in Osaka. While studying cultural anthropology at Kyoto Bunkyo University, he began organising student film festivals and independent filmmaking, and in 2006 moved to the mountains of Maniwa, Okayama Prefecture, where he began making films while engaging in farming. His first feature film Hikari no Otoko (2011) toured 51 locations in Okayama Prefecture and was also invited to the Tokyo International Film Festival and the Rotterdam International Film Festival's Bright Future section. It also won the Nippon Visions Award at the Nippon Connection Film Festival in Germany. His second film, Sanchu Uprising: Voices at Dawn (2014), was the closing film at the New York Japan Cuts Film Festival and was highly acclaimed by the New York Times. Furthermore, the film won the Grand Prix for Rising Directors at the Takasaki Film Festival.
Filmography
2011 Hikari no Oto
2014 Sanchu Uprising: Voices at Dawn
2018 Past Chimney
2022 Yamabuki
Cast & Crew
Director: Yamasaki Juichirō
Screenplay: Yamasaki Juichirō
Cinematography: Tawara Kenta
Music: Olivier Deparis
Cast: Kang Yoon-soo, Inori Kilala, Kawase Yohta, Wada Misa, Miura Masaki, Kurozumi Hisao, Matsuura Yuya, Aoki Munetaka
Producer: Osanaï Terutarō, Akamatsu Shoko, Watanabe Atsuto, Masago Takeshi, Yamasaki Juichiro
Production: Film Union Maniwa, Survivance
Language: Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese
Colouration: Colour
