Hanagatami
From the director of House
Certificate: 15
Running Time: 169 mins
Retail Price: £19.99
Release Date: 2020
Content Type: Movie
Synopsis:
In 2016, Nobuhiko Obayashi, the director of the cult Japanese film HAUSU was diagnosed with lung cancer and given only a few months to live. Despite not much time left, for what was supposed to be his final film he adapted Kazuo Dan’s 1937 novella HANAGATAMI, his passion project 40 years in the making.
In the spring of 1941, sixteen-year-old Toshihiko leaves Amsterdam to attend school in Karatsu, a small town on the western coast of Japan, where his aunt Keiko cares for his ailing cousin Mina. Immersed in the seaside’s nature and culture, Toshihiko soon befriends the town’s other extraordinary adolescents as they all contend with the war’s inescapable gravitational pull. With his memories as a survivor of World War II echoing in the uncertainty of world events unfolding today, director Obayashi returns us to 1941, a pivotal time for Japan, as the unstoppable momentum of war forcibly seized the lives of youth away to battlefields where they disappeared forever. In dazzling, full-bloom Obayashi style, ‘Hanagatami’ captures the passion, innocence, and struggle of the end days of youth in a country consumed by the flames of war.
Special Features:
Making Of
Interview with director Nobuhiko Obayashi
Video Tracks:
1.85:1 widescreen 1080p
Audio Tracks:
DTS-HD MA 5.1 Surround Japanese
Subtitle Tracks:
English
Directed By:
Nobuhiko Ôbayashi
Written By:
Nobuhiko Ôbayashi
Chiho Katsura
Starring:
Shunsuke Kubozuka
Shinnosuke Mitsushima
Keishi Nagatsuka
Tokio Emoto
Honoka Miki
Hirona Yamazaki
Mugi Kadowaki
Takako Tokiwa
Takehiro Murata
Tetsuya Takeda
Music From:
Kôsuke Yamashita
Director of Photography:
Hisaki Sanbongi
Editor:
Hisaki Sanbongi
Nobuhiko Ôbayashi
Costume Designer:
Koichi Fujisaki
Shigeru Moriwaki
Production Designer:
Toshiharu Aida
Producer:
Terumichi Yamazaki
Executive Producer:
Kyôko Ôbayashi
Distributor:
Third Window Films
Your Opinions and Comments
Be the first to post a comment!