Seven Weeks
- Friday, June 5, 14:00 Mousonturm Saal
- 野のなななのか
No no nanananoka - Japan 2014, Blu-ray, 171 min, Japanese with English subtitles, FSK 12
- Director: Nobuhiko OBAYASHI
- Script: Nobuhiko OBAYASHI, based on a novel by Koji HASEGAWA
- Production: Ashibetsu Movie Production Committee
- Camera: Hisaki SANBONGI
- Music: Kosuke YAMASHITA
- World sales: PSC Obayashi Nobuhiko Office
- Cast: Toru SHINAGAWA, Takehiro MURATA, Yutaka MATSUSHIGE, Takako TOKIWA, Yumi ADACHI
- German premiere
- Competition Nippon Cinema Award
The funeral of doctor Mitsuo Suzuki brings his family back to snowy Sapporo. From there, a family story unfolds that dates back to the Second World War. Nobuhiko OBAYASHI proves that he still masters the techniques of radical formality. Fast editing and rapid dolly shots punctuate a storyline that doesn't sugarcoat topics like Japan's involvement in the Second World War and nuclear energy.
Director Bio
Nobuhiko OBAYASHI, born in Hiroshima Prefecture in 1938, began directing feature films starting with the horror comedy HOUSE (1977). EXCHANGE STUDENTS (1982), THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME (1983) and LONELY HEART (1985) are known as the Onomichi Trilogy", named after his hometown where they were filmed.
Filmography (selection)
1977 House; 1989 Beijing Watermelon (Pekin no suika); 1991 Chizuko’s Younger Sister (Futari); 1998 Sada; 2005 The Reason (Riyu); 2008 Scenery to Remember (Sono hi no mae ni); 2011 Casting Blossoms to the Sky (Kono sora no hana: Nagaoka hanabi monogatari / NC ’12)