Pale Moon

  • Saturday, June 6, 20:15 Mousonturm Saal
  • Sunday, June 7, 20:00 Mal Seh'n Kino
  • 紙の月
    Kami no tsuki
  • Japan 2014, DCP, 126 min, Japanese with English subtitles, FSK 12
  • Director: Daihachi YOSHIDA
  • Script: Kaeko HAYAFUNE, based on a novel by Mitsuyo KAKUTA
  • Production: Robot Communications
  • Camera: Makoto SHIGUMA
  • Music: little moa, Yuki ONO, Tatsuo YAMAGUCHI
  • World sales: Shochiku
  • Cast: Rie MIYAZAWA, Sosuke IKEMATSU, Satomi KOBAYASHI
  • German premiere
  • Wettbewerb Nippon Cinema Award

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Demure and unhappily married bank employee Rika begins to embezzle her customers’ money to afford a luxurious lifestyle with her much younger lover. But soon she finds herself in a seemingly unstoppable downward spiral. Set during the economic crisis of the 1990s, PALE MOON tells a thrilling moral tale, winning the audience award at 2014’s Tokyo International Film Festival.

Director Bio
Daihachi YOSHIDA was born in 1963. After graduating from Waseda University, he directed commercials and won numerous awards. In 2007, he directed his first feature film FUNUKE SHOW SOME LOVE, YOU LOSERS!, which was officially invited to the Critics’ Week of the 60th Cannes International Film Festival..

Filmography (selection)
2007 Funuke Show Some Love, You Losers! (Funuke domo, kanashimi no ai o misero / NC '08); 2009 The Wonderful World of Captain Kuhio (Kuhio taisa); 2010 Permanent Nobara (NC '11); 2012 The Kirishima Thing (Kirishima, bukatsu yamerutteyo / NC '13)

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