Sideways

2009

Sideways

サイドウェイズ

(c)2009 Twentieth Century Fox and Fuji Television

Release Date: October, 31st, 2009

Running Time: 123 min

Genre: Drama , Feature

Color: Color

Screening Format: 35mm

Screen Size: Cinema Scope (1:2.35)

Sound Processing: Dolby Digital

[ Directed by ]

Cellin GLUCK

[ Produced by ]

[ Cast ]

KOHINATA Fumiyo ── SAITO Michio
NAMASE Katsuhisa ── UEHARA Daisuke
SUZUKI Kyoka ── TANAKA Mayuko
KIKUCHI Rinko ── Mina PARKER

[ Staff ]

KAMEYAMA Chihiro ── Produced by
Rex PICKETT ── Original Story
Alexander PAYNE ── Screenplay
Jim TAYLOR ── Screenplay
UESUGI Takayuki ── Japanese Screenplay
Garry WALLER ── Cinematography
Jim MUNRO ── Editor
Jake SHIMABUKURO ── Music

[ Production Company ]

Fuji Television Network, Twentieth Century Fox Film

[ Distributor (Japan) ]

Twentieth Century Fox Film

[ Story ]

A remake of the 2004 Hollywood film that won an Oscar for best adapted screenplay, made by an American crew with a Japanese cast. It is directed by Cellin Gluck, a Japan-born American who has worked as second-unit director on numerous American and Japanese films, including Lorelei and 20th Century Boys. Michio (Kohinata Fumiyo), an unsuccessful screenwriter, goes to Los Angeles when he hears that a friend from his time as a foreign student in the US 20 years ago, Daisuke (Namase Katsuhisa), is about to marry the daughter of the owner of the restaurant where he works. Daisuke picks him up at the airport and they leave on a one-week driving trip. They disagree about where to go, but Michio learns that a woman he once had a crush on, Mayuko (Suzuki Kyoka), lives in Napa Valley in California wine country, so they decide to go on a winery tour. In luck, they run into Mayuko and her friend Mina (Kikuchi Rinko) at a Napa restaurant, but Michio is shocked by Mayuko's maturity and gets drunk. The journey of these two lackluster men, through the gorgeous scenery of California, is told with wit and heart.