My Technicolor Girl

My Technicolor Girl
  • Tuesday, May 24, 22:30 Naxoshalle Kino
  • 夢の女 ユメノヒト
    Yume no onna yume no hito
  • Japan 2015, Blu-ray, 71 min, Japanese with English subtitles
  • Director: Rei SAKAMOTO
  • Production: INTERFILM, V-PARA- DISE, IMT
  • Camera: Sachi KAGAMI
  • World sales: Stance Company
  • Cast: Kazuhiro SANO, Kiyomi ITO, Hanako WADA, Maki NISHIYAMA
  • International premiere
  • Competition Nippon Visions Jury Award and Nippon Visions Audience Award

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Nagano has spent the last 40 years of his life in a mental hospital in Fukushima. He is only able to leave after the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011. He then decides to catch up on his life, travelling by bike to Tokyo to meet the love of his youth. Rei SAKAMOTO tells a heartfelt story about missed chances, new beginnings, and love in the times of catastrophe.

Director Bio
Born in Tokyo in 1973, Rei SAKAMOTO became an assistant director to Takahisa ZEZE and Toshiki SATO while still a student at the Nikkatsu Visual Arts Academy. In 1999, he directed his first feature, a pink film.

Filmography
1999 3 Balls, 1 Strike (Sex friend: Nurezakari); 2001 21st Century Girl (18sai: Shitagi no naka no uzuki); 2005 Futamata (Monzetsu futamata afurederu aieki); 2007 Strawberries and the Gun (Injo: Gibo to sankyodai); 2008 Yariman (NC ’09); 2015 The Story of Noriko (Noriko no baai)

  • Supporting film: THE NIGHT OF THE NAPORITAN
  • by Yusuke SAKAMOTO, Japan 2014, 6 min, Japanese with English subtitles

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