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2017

Umibe no sei to shi

Life and Death On the Shore

海辺の生と死

(c)2017 Miho Shimao / Toshio Shimao / humanité Co ,Ltd.

(c)2017 Miho Shimao / Toshio Shimao / humanité Co ,Ltd.

(c)2017 Miho Shimao / Toshio Shimao / humanité Co ,Ltd.

(c)2017 Miho Shimao / Toshio Shimao / humanité Co ,Ltd.

Release Date
July, 29th, 2017
Running Time
155 min
Genre
Drama , Feature
Color
Color
Screening Format
DCP
Screen Size
HD (16:9)
Screening Format with Subtitles
English (DCP, Blu-ray)

[ Directed by ]

[ Produced by ]

[ Cast ]

[ Staff ]

[ Production Company ]

humanité

[ Distributor (Japan) ]

Fulmotelmo, Star Sands

[ Production Studio ]

SLOW LEARNER

[ Story ]

Film adaptation of a story about a passionate encounter and love written by Shimao Toshio, author of the personal novel "The Sting of Death", and Shimao Miho. Directed by Koshikawa Michio of Areno - The Wilderness.
The year is 1944 at the tail end of the Pacific War. Ohira Toe (Mitsushima Hikari) works as a teacher at the Japanese school on Kagero Island, where she meets the newly dispatched naval captain Saku (Nagayama Kento). They take an interest in each other and have repeated clandestine meetings, but enemy attacks steadily grow stronger and Okinawa falls. Saku will soon be sent on a mission.

[ Official Site ]

http://www.umibenoseitoshi.net

[ Film Festivals, Awards ]

2017 Shanghai International Film Festival
2017 Camera Japan Festival
2017 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival

[ 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

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