Teen prodigy Kenji unwittingly throws humanity into peril when he cracks a math code from a mysterious sender. Next thing he knows, some hacker using his avatar is wreaking great havoc in the virtual and the real worlds. With the help of his crush and her large wacky family, Kenji embarks on a digital war to save the world. No sophomore slump for THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME director Mamoru Hosoda, who works again with studio Madhouse to create a thoroughly charming sci-fi coming-of-age adventure.
2009 / 114 min
導演 Dir: 細田守 Mamoru Hosoda
2009 瑞士盧卡諾國際電影節參展電影
Official Selection, Locarno International Film Festival 2009
Reveling in deadpan comedy and bittersweet details, 18th PFF Scholarship winner Naito Takatsugu’s delightful debut feature looks at life with a wry eye and a warm heart. Lonely, awkward fisherman Manzo is going on forty but still single. He sets out with high hopes for a matchmaking party at the local bar, but luck and finesse are not on his side. When he returns home, he is surprised to discover a woman and her child hiding in his closet. Just like that, he’s found a family but things don’t turn out as he plans.
Hirokazu Kore-eda explores what it means to be human through the experiences of an unlikely heroine: an AIR DOLL. Appearing in her second Japanese film after LINDA LINDA LINDA, Bae Doo-na stars as an inflatable sex doll that comes to life in the aesthetically and emotionally beguiling fantasy drama based on Yoshie Gouda’s manga. Leaving the grasps of her lonely, doting owner, the wide-eyed doll ventures out into a poetic new world full of curious personalities and adventures, and falls headfirst in love with a video store clerk.
2009 / 116 min
導演 Dir: 是枝裕和 Hirokazu Kore-eda
主演 Cast: 裴斗娜 Bae Doo-na, 井浦新 Arata, 小田切讓 Joe Odagiri
2009康城影展「一種注目」参展電影
Official Selection, Un Certain Regard, Cannes Film Festival 2009
After winning the Grand Prix at the 30th Cannes Film Festival with THE MOURNING FOREST, Japan’s leading female director Naomi Kawase takes a sensual and spiritual journey into the heart of Thailand with a Japanese, French, and Thai cast. Unnerved by a dodgy cabbie, Ayako runs into the woods without her luggage and finds shelter with a traditional Thai masseur. Though faced with a language barrier, she slowly opens her eyes and heart to a new culture in the jungle, where peace and discord both seem one stroke of the hand away.
Picking up the story after CROWS - EPISODE 0, Takashi Miike’s blockbuster sequel throws audiences right back into the hyper-stylized world of high school gangs and violent brotherhood. Shun Oguri returns as alpha delinquent Genji Takaya, who has fought his way to the top of Suzuran High but come no closer to uniting the school’s factions. It’s all-out gang war all over again when Genji unwittingly breaks the ceasefire with rival school Hosen, but he’s fighting on two fronts trying to unite a divided Suzuran against a formidable adversary.
MOON AND CHERRY director Yuki Tanada offers a frank depiction of sexuality at 17 in her brilliant adaptation of Akira Saso’s comingof- age manga. Charging forward with all the stagnant urgency and high-strung awkwardness of adolescence, AIN’T NO TOMORROWS weaves three episodes of high school angst and sexual awakening. Sex-obsessed virgin Hiruma desperately pursues a sickly classmate. His buddy Mine becomes the unlikely savior for a naive schoolgirl, and chubby Ando unexpectedly scores with the class beauty.
2008 / 79 min
導演 Dir: 棚田由紀 Yuki Tanada
主演 Cast: 安藤櫻花 Sakura Ando, 柄本時生 Tokio Emoto, 遠藤雄彌 Yuya Endo
亞洲短打 Asian Shorts 3 金魚 Kingyo
靈感來自日本諾貝爾獎作家川端康成的短篇故事《金絲鳥》,大學教授付費聘請一位曾是他學生,並與他有過婚外戀情的「秋葉原女傭」陪伴他出遊聊天,二人在路上談起當年的不倫之戀……
Based on Yasunari Kawabata’s short story Canaries, 25 year-old Malaysian director Edmund Yeo’s poetic meditation on guilt, memories and love lost uses split screen and a pair of goldfish to gradually reveal the relationship between a professor and an Akihabara maid as they stroll through the streets of Tokyo.
日本 Japan - 馬來西亞 Malaysia / 2009 / 25 min
導演 Dir: 楊毅恒 Edmund Yeo
主演 Cast: Rukino Fujisaki, Takao Kawaguchi, Amane Kudo
2009威尼斯影展競賽作品
Official Competition, Venice International Film Festival 2009