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- Wednesday, June 3, 22:15 Naxoshalle Kino
- Japan 2014, Blu-ray, 120 min, Japanese with English subtitles
- Director: Makoto SHINOZAKI
- Script: Makoto SHINOZAKI, Zenzo SAKAI
- Camera: Yuki AKIYAMA
- Music: Hiroyuki NAGASHIMA
- Production: COMTEG, Office Kitano
- World sales: Office Kitano
- Cast: Kinuo YAMADA, Asuka HINOI, Ryudai TAKAHASHI, Tomoki KIMURA, Kumi HYODO
- Competition Nippon Visions Jury Award and Nippon Visions Audience Award
- European premiere
Memories can be blocked, but they can also be invented. Psychology professor Eiko works with people who were traumatized by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster. But the topic affects her more personally than she wants to admit. Narrative structures begin to intertwine, reality becomes ambiguous. Like a surgeon, SHINOZAKI dissects the human mind in this complex yet moving film.
Director Bio
Makoto SHINOZAKI was born in Tokyo in 1963 and studied at Rikkyo University, where he also started shooting 8mm films. After that, he worked as a film critic and journalist. In 1995 he gave his feature film debut with OKAERI, which won the Wolfgang Staudte Award at Berlinale. In 2003 he published a book on the history of horror film together with fellow director Kiyoshi KUROSAWA. He is also active as a producer and works as a professor of psychology at Rikkyo University.
Filmography
1995 Okaeri; 1999 Jam Session (Jam Session: Kikujiro no natsu koshiki kaizokuban); 2004 Walking with the Dog (Inu to arukeba: Chirori to Tamura); 2012 Die! Directors, Die! (Shine! Shine! Shinema / NC '12); 2013 Since Then (Arekara)
Supporting film: How Beautiful Japanese Morning Is- by Yuichi SUITA, Japan 2011, 15 min, OmeU