Hoyo
Walking with My Mother
- Release Date
- April, 25th, 2015
- Running Time
- 93 min
- Genre
- Drama , Children/Family , Documentary
- Color
- Color
- Screening Format
- Blu-ray,HDCAM
- Screening Format with Subtitles
- English (Blu-ray, HDCAM)
[ Directed by ]
[ Produced by ]
[ Cast ]
[ Staff ]
- SAKAGUCHI Katsumi ── Cinematography
- SAKAGUCHI Katsumi ── Editor
- OCHIAI Atsuko ── Editor
- OSAWA Atena ── Music
- YAMASHITA Hirofumi ── Sound design
[ Production Company ]
SUPERSAURUS
[ Distributor (Japan) ]
SUPERSAURUS
[ Story ]
A feature-length documentar y by Sakaguchi Kat sumi (Sleep), who has devised and directed around 200 television documentaries and films about families and young people. He closely follows his mother Suchie over four years, depicting her struggles and changes. Screened in the Japanese Cinema Splash section at Tokyo International Film Festival 2014.
Seventy-eight-year-old Suchie has lost her eldest daughter and husband, and become mentally unstable. She has unintentionally grown dependent on copious doses of tranquilizers. Sakaguchi trains his camera on his mother in order to gain a deeper understanding of her.
[ Film Festivals, Awards ]
2014 Tokyo International Film Festival, Japanese Cinema Splash
[ Contact (International) ]
SUPERSAURUS Inc.
2-2-15-942 Minamioaoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0062
Rep: SAKAGUCHI Katsumi
Attn: OCHIAI Atsuko
tel: +81 3 3551 5530
fax: +81 3 6893 6516
E-mail: info@supersaurus.jp
http://www.supersaurus.jp
