Kamihate shoten
Kamihate Store
(c)Kitashirakawaha
(c)Kitashirakawaha
- Release Date
- 2012
- Running Time
- 104 min
- Color
- Color
- Screening Format
- 35mm,DCP
- Screen Size
- American Vista (1:1.85)
- Sound Processing
- Dolby Digital
- Subtitle
- English
[ Directed by ]
[ Produced by ]
[ Cast ]
- TAKAHASHI Keiko ── MORITA Chiyo
- TERAJIMA Susumu ── MORITA Yoshio
- AGATA Morio ── Driver
[ Staff ]
- HITO Haruka ── Planning
- YAMAGUCHI Natsumi ── Planning
- HITO Haruka ── Original Story
- YAMAGUCHI Natsumi ── Original Story
- MIZUKAMI Ryushi ── Screenplay
- YAMAMOTO Tatsuya ── Screenplay
- OGAWA Shinji ── Cinematography
[ Production Company ]
MAGIC HOUR, Mame Production, SAITO Koji, Amacho (Oki), KITASHIRAKAWAHA
[ Distributor (Japan) ]
MAGIC HOUR, KITASHIRAKAWAHA
[ Story ]
The fiction film debut of Yamamoto Tatsuya, whose documentary Her dear old house was highly regarded both at home and abroad, and the third movie from the "Kitashirakawa-ha Eiga Geijutsu Undo" (Kitashirakawa-group film art movement), a project involving professional film staff and students at the Kyoto University of Arts and Design Department of Film Production. Chiyo (Takahashi Keiko), a woman entering the twilight of her life, runs a mostly deserted general store in Kamihate, a port town in Japan's western San-in region. At some point in the past, a cliff facing the sea near her store became a suicide spot. Chiyo has never attempted to stop people from taking their lives, until...
[ Official Site ]
[ Premiere ]
World Premiere: 2012 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Competition
[ Contact (International) ]
Open Sesame Co., Ltd.
#303, 1-17-6 Shintomi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0041
Rep: ABE Ritsuko
Attn: NAKANE Kaho
tel: +81 3 6228 3453
fax: +81 3 6228 3458
E-mail: ritsuko@open-sesame.jp , kaho@open-sesame.jp
