Hold Your Breath Like A Lover
- Thursday, June 4, 15:00 Naxoshalle Kino
- 息を殺して
Iki o koroshite - Japan 2014, Blu-ray, 85 min, Japanese with English subtitles
- Director & script: Kohei IGARASHI
- Production & world sales: Tokyo University of the Arts
- Camera: Wataru TAKAHASHI
- Music: Sleepy Lemon
- Cast: Ran TANIGUCHI, Yusuke INABA, Goichi MINE, Tomomitsu ADACHI, Koji HARADA
- German premiere in the presence of the director Kohei IGARASHI and the producer Makoto OKI
- Competition Nippon Visions Jury Award and Nippon Visions Audience Award
December 30, 2017: A handful of workers spends the night in a seemingly abandoned factory, playing video games, battling out love conflicts and aimlessly walking through gloomy offices and corridors. In between, a dog gets lost and ghosts of the dead return. A dark view on a future pre-apocalyptic Japan, presented in ambiguous images exerting a unique pull.
Director Bio
Born in Shizuoka in 1983, Kohei IGARASHI graduated in film at Tokyo Zokei University. After directing his first feature film VOICE OF RAIN THAT COMES AT NIGHT, which was invited to the Cinema Digital Seoul Film Festival in 2008, he entered the Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts. HOLD YOUR BREATH LIKE A LOVER is his graduation film.
Filmography
2008 Voice of Rain that Comes at Night (Yaraifuu no koe)
In cooperation with The City of Yokohama Frankfurt Representative Office and kindly supported by JFE Engineering Europe GmbH and the Restaurant Muku in Frankfurt
