Barber Yoshino
Yoshino's Barber Shop
- Release Date
- April, 10th, 2004
- Running Time
- 96 min
- Genre
- Feature
- Color
- Color
- Screening Format
- 35mm
[ Directed by ]
[ Produced by ]
[ Cast ]
- MOTAI Masako ── Yoshino Yoshiko
- YONEDA Ryo ── Yoshino Keita
- ASANO Kazuyuki ── Yoshino Takeo
- SAKURAI Senri ── Grandpa Mikawa
[ Staff ]
- OGIGAMI Naoko ── Screenplay
- UENO Shogo ── Cinematography
- KATO Yamato ── Sound Mixer
- ABE Shigeru ── Sound Mixer
- HAYASHI Daisuke ── Sound Mixer
- IDE Hiroko ── Music
[ Production Company ]
PFF Partners(PIA, HoriPro, Nikkatsu), PIA, TBS, TOKYO FM, NIKKATSU, IMAGICA
[ Story ]
This light-hearted feature debut from director Ogigami Naoko gained a Special Mention at the 2004 Berlin International Film Festival.
In a picturesque rural village, everyone has their hair cut at the local barbershop - the only one - by the fearsome Yoshiko (Motai Masako). Without exception, all the local boys are required to sport the hairdresser's proprietary bowl-shaped "Yoshino Cut", which is a long-standing town tradition. However, when trendy transfer student Yosuke (Ishida Noritsugu) arrives on the scene, his fashionably dyed and coiffed locks ruffle the community's clean-cut consensus as the local boys start questioning the status quo. Yoshiko fights back by implementing school gate hairstyle checkpoints and monopolizing the village's public address system, but Yosuke's individualism proves to be highly infectious. Soon Yoshiko's sons Keita (Yoneda Ryo) and Yaji (Okawa Shota) are forced to choose between their mother's conformism and the exhilarating freedom represented by their new friend.
[ Contact (International) ]
TBS (Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, Inc.)
Movie Production Department
17F, 5-3-6 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-8006
Attn: International Movie Sales
http://www.tbscontents.com
