Sonan Friitaa
A Permanent Part-timer in Distress
- Release Date
- TBD
- Running Time
- 68 min
- Genre
- Documentary
- Color
- Color
- Screening Format
- DVCAM
- Screen Size
- Standard (1:1.37)
- Sound Processing
- Stereo
[ Directed by ]
[ Produced by ]
[ Cast ]
- IWABUCHI Hiroki ── IWABUCHI Hiroki
[ Production Company ]
W-TV OFFICE
[ Story ]
The director, twenty-three-year-old Iwabuchi Hiroki, is a permanent part-timer who on weekdays does menial work at a factory for 1,250 yen an hour, and on weekends takes on casual temporary work in Tokyo, a city he is fascinated with. He joins a demonstration demanding rights for permanent part-timers, and is featured on TV as "a poor, unhappy temporary worker." Despite having made his own choice to live as a permanent part-timer, he says that "the days feel like drowning in shallow water." But during the diary-like documentation of his life, something changes...
[ Official Site ]
http://www.geocities.jp/sounan_freeter/e_top.html
[ Premiere ]
World Premiere: Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival2007
[ Film Festivals, Awards ]
Hong Kong International Film Festival 2008
[ Contact (International) ]
W-TV OFFICE
#414, 3-22-1, Aobadai, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-0042
Rep: TSUCHIYA Yutaka
Attn: TSUCHIYA Yutaka
tel: +81 90 8647 5030
E-mail: yt_w-tv@st.rim.or.jp
