“Melting Sounds” is the full-length directorial debut of Kahori Higashi. It was created in collaboration with Moosic Lab and stars Higashi collaborator Umeno Uno and the rising musician xiangyu.
“Melting Sounds” is screening at Osaka Asian Film Festival
Koto (xiangyu) goes to her deceased grandmother’s rural home to get away from the world for a bit. In the garden of the house, she finds an old man, Take (Keiichi Suzuki), who lives in a makeshift shack and records every sound he can think of on cassette tapes. After recording each tape, he buries it in a specific place in his hut, so the other world can listen to the living. The idyll life of the two new friends is endangered when Yamada (Amon Hirai) and Hiroko (Umeno Uno), who work at an unknown company, come and try to take Koto’s grandma’s house away.
“Melting Sounds” is a...
“Melting Sounds” is screening at Osaka Asian Film Festival
Koto (xiangyu) goes to her deceased grandmother’s rural home to get away from the world for a bit. In the garden of the house, she finds an old man, Take (Keiichi Suzuki), who lives in a makeshift shack and records every sound he can think of on cassette tapes. After recording each tape, he buries it in a specific place in his hut, so the other world can listen to the living. The idyll life of the two new friends is endangered when Yamada (Amon Hirai) and Hiroko (Umeno Uno), who work at an unknown company, come and try to take Koto’s grandma’s house away.
“Melting Sounds” is a...
- 3/17/2022
- by Martin Lukanov
- AsianMoviePulse
“On the Edge of Their Seats” is a youth-drama adapted from an award-winning high school stage play from Hyogo Prefecture is pink film director’s Hideo Jojo first teen film. The movie premiered at the Osaka Asian Film Festival.
“On the Edge of Their Seats” is screening as part of InlanDimensions International Arts Festival
Four high school students, the ex-baseball player Fujino (Amon Hirai), the drama club members Yasuda (Rina Ono) and Tamiya (Marin Nishimoto), and the quiet and bookwormish Miyashita (Shuri Nakamura) are at a baseball game that their team, East Iruma High, is losing. Largely uninterested in showing support for their school’s team, Fujino, Yasuda, and Tamiya start chattering, while Miyashita stands quietly at the back, watching them and the match. As the emotions on the field grow, so do these at the edge of the stands.
The game takes place in the middle of the hot...
“On the Edge of Their Seats” is screening as part of InlanDimensions International Arts Festival
Four high school students, the ex-baseball player Fujino (Amon Hirai), the drama club members Yasuda (Rina Ono) and Tamiya (Marin Nishimoto), and the quiet and bookwormish Miyashita (Shuri Nakamura) are at a baseball game that their team, East Iruma High, is losing. Largely uninterested in showing support for their school’s team, Fujino, Yasuda, and Tamiya start chattering, while Miyashita stands quietly at the back, watching them and the match. As the emotions on the field grow, so do these at the edge of the stands.
The game takes place in the middle of the hot...
- 10/1/2021
- by Martin Lukanov
- AsianMoviePulse
Ami Sakurai, a writer known for the original work of “Innocent World”, took on the director’s chair and made a movie of her novel published on her Twitter. The independent film of the University Eiken Circle, which was canceled due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection, will resume shooting after a pause. Rina Ono and Amon Hirai, who co-starred in “The Alps Stand’s Hashikata”
Sana (Rina Ono), who was selected as the heroine of the independent film “Super Moon” is denied acting by director Nishi (Ryu Morioka) and loses her confidence. Howeverm she fnds support in the face of her by co-star Rei (Amon Hirai) and regains her conviction, but the shooting fails due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection. After graduating from college, she doesn’t give up on being actress and works hard on acting lessons while working part-time. Meanwhile, shooting of...
Sana (Rina Ono), who was selected as the heroine of the independent film “Super Moon” is denied acting by director Nishi (Ryu Morioka) and loses her confidence. Howeverm she fnds support in the face of her by co-star Rei (Amon Hirai) and regains her conviction, but the shooting fails due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection. After graduating from college, she doesn’t give up on being actress and works hard on acting lessons while working part-time. Meanwhile, shooting of...
- 7/1/2021
- by Don Anelli
- AsianMoviePulse
Classroom dynamics in the wake of a tragedy are ably explored in director Yuho Ishibashi’s “Sayounara”. It is based on a Sns manga of the same name by the artist Gomen and retains some of the original characters while expanding the world of the manga to suit the feature length format.
In a quiet coastal town lives Yuki, an ordinary high-school girl who likes doing what most girls her age like to do. She is not completely reserved but likes to mingle only with the people she gets along with. Her best friend is Aya, who she’s known for years and who one day, while on their after-school stroll on the beach, announces that she is moving to a different town and school and instinctively kisses Yuki. Yuki has still not collected her thoughts over the incident when she gets the news that Aya has passed away in...
In a quiet coastal town lives Yuki, an ordinary high-school girl who likes doing what most girls her age like to do. She is not completely reserved but likes to mingle only with the people she gets along with. Her best friend is Aya, who she’s known for years and who one day, while on their after-school stroll on the beach, announces that she is moving to a different town and school and instinctively kisses Yuki. Yuki has still not collected her thoughts over the incident when she gets the news that Aya has passed away in...
- 4/4/2020
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
It is one of the lasting paradoxes of language that, even though you may have an elaborated range and knowledge in your mother tongue, there are always clear limitations to what you can express. Especially for an artist, avoiding the silence when it comes to overcome these limitations, has to be the invention of a new language through working with the linguistic foundation available or, when it comes to art or film, use images and sound. In his 2019 feature “For Rei” Japanese director Yukari Sakamoto explores the idea of not being able to express yourself, the personal crisis this might lead to and how there are possibilities to overcome them which, in the case of the film, bring you right back to your origins.
“For Rei” is screening at Osaka Asian Film Festival
At the center of the film, we have Rei (An Ogawa), a student of philosophy, who has...
“For Rei” is screening at Osaka Asian Film Festival
At the center of the film, we have Rei (An Ogawa), a student of philosophy, who has...
- 3/14/2020
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
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