Tonaru hito
Never let me go
- Release Date
- May, 12th, 2012
- Running Time
- 85 min
- Genre
- Drama , Documentary
- Color
- Color
- Screening Format
- Blu-ray
- Screen Size
- Standard (1:1.37)
- Subtitle
- English
[ Directed by ]
[ Produced by ]
[ Staff ]
- TACHIKAWA Kazuya ── Cinematography
- INAZUKA Yumiko ── Planning
- OSAWA Kazuo ── Cinematography
- OSAWA Kazuo ── Story-board
- ONO Sayaka ── Cinematography
- TSUJII Kiyoshi ── Editor
[ Production Company ]
ASIAPRESS INTERNATIONAL
[ Distributor (Japan) ]
ASIAPRESS INTERNATIONAL
[ Story ]
Invited film to the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. Documentary by freelance journalist Tachikawa Kazuya that captures everyday scenes in a rural foster home over an eightyear period.
Children of Light is a foster home with the slogan of "living together with children". Children who for various reasons cannot live with their parents share a communal life. Caretaker Mariko is in charge of Mutsumi and Marina. One day, Mutsumi's mother visits the foster home with the wish to live with her child again.
[ Official Site ]
[ Film Festivals, Awards ]
2011 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, New Docs Japan
2012 The Bunka-Cho Film Awards, Documentary Grand Prize
[ Contact (International) ]
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