Release Date

July, 2nd, 2016

Running Time

108 min

Genre

Drama , Mystery , Children/Family , Historical , Feature

Color

Color

Screening Format

DCP,Blu-ray, DVD

Screen Size

-

Sound Processing

-

Screening Format with Subtitles

English (Blu-ray)

[ Directed by ]

• OMORI Kenichi

[ Produced by ]

• HIROSE Masumi
• KIMATA Makoto
• KUSUNOKI Tomoharu

[ Cast ]

• TAKEDA Rina ── AKAMATSU Suzume
• KOBAYASHI Yutaka ── OKAZAKI Kenichi
• YOSHIYUKI Kazuko ── MIYOSHI Tome

[ Staff ]

• OMORI Kenichi ── Screenplay
• IMAI Tetsuro ── Cinematography
• KOMAKI Masato ── Sound Recording
• OMORI Kenichi ── Editor
• NAKAHASHI Takaaki ── Music

[ Production Company ]

USAGIMARU, KING RECORDS, Ark Entertainment

[ Distributor (Japan) ]

Ark Entertainment

[ Production Studio ]

USAGIMARU

[ Story ]

Set in Ehime Prefecture's Uwajima City, the film portrays the efforts by a novelist, who bicycles around town delivering books for the library courier department, to find a book crucial to a festival on the island. In the director's chair is Omori Kenichi, who directed The Letters and Samurai Pirates.
Suzume (Takeda Rina), who debuted as an author at an early age, has fallen into a slump and now works in the courier department at the library of her hometown of Uwajima City. The city is alive with anticipation for the upcoming festival commemorating the 400th anniversary of the Date Family in Uwajima, but it's revealed an essential illustrated embroidery book has been lost. Complicating matters further, there are whispers the courier department will be closed down.

[ Official Site ]

http://umisuzume.com/the-book-peddler.html

[ Film Festivals, Awards ]

2016 Hawaii International Film Festival

[ Contact (International) ]

USAGIMARU LLC.
B1, Daiichicopo 3-27-7 Chuo Nakano-ku, Tokyo 164-0011
Rep: OMORI Kenichi
Attn: HIROSE Masumi
tel: +81 3 3322 5055
fax: +81 3 3322 5055
E-mail: info@usa.boy.jp
http://usa.boy.jp