Riyoshi
The Barber
- Release Date
- July, 7th, 2011
- Running Time
- 38 min
- Genre
- Feature
- Color
- Color
- Screening Format
- 35mm
- Screen Size
- American Vista (1:1.85)
- Subtitle
- English
[ Directed by ]
[ Produced by ]
[ Cast ]
[ Staff ]
- AKINO Shoichi ── Screenplay
- MOTOZAWA Eigo ── Screenplay
- KITAHARA Takeshi ── Cinematography
- SASAKI Reiko ── Production Design
- KAWAKAMI Kyoko ── Editor
[ Production Company ]
Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts
[ Distributor (Japan) ]
Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts
[ Production Studio ]
Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts
[ Story ]
A humanistic drama that gently depicts the bond between a couple who run a hair salon. Director Akino Shoichi is a newcomer who was born in 1985, and this film was made as a fifth-year graduation project for the Tokyo University of the Arts' Graduate School of Film and New Media. A hairdresser (Yamada Hiroshi) and his wife (Endo Yumi) operate a small town hair salon. They took over from the wife's father, who was also a barber, and her younger brother also works with them. When the brother gets engaged, he decides to finally leave home.
[ Official Site ]
http://www.fnm.geidai.ac.jp/film5/
[ Contact (International) ]
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