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Director’s Profile

Kumakiri Kazuyoshi was born in 1974 in Hokkaido, Japan. He majored in Arts’ Visual Concept Planning at Osaka University. His thesis film Kichiku was officially invited by more than 10 International Film Festivals, including the Panorama section of 1998 Berlin International Film Festival. His next film, Hole in the Sky was officially invited to the Young Forum section of 2001 Berlin International Film Festival , and awarded the RIPRESCI Prize in 2001 Rotterdam International Film Festival . Since then, he has been exhibiting a series of works such as ANTENNA (which attracted public attention at 2003 Venice International Film Festival ), Volatile Woman, Green Mind, Metal Bats and Freesia: Bullet Over Tears. In 2008, he directed the film NON-KO and was exhibited at many International Film Festivals such as the Spectrum section of 2009 Rotterdam International Film Festival . His most recent film Sketches of Kaitan City was released in December 2010 and became an award-winner at many festivals such as 2010 Tokyo International Film Festival. It also won the Matsumoto CINEMA Select Award, 2011 Takasaki Film Festival , as well as the Jury prize at 2011 Deauville Asian Film Festival.

Synopsis

The disastrous earthquake and Tsunami occurred in Okushiri Island, Hokkaido in 1993, took the whole family away from 9-year old Hana in front of her eyes. At that moment, she became an orphan. But the next day, she met a man, whose name is Jungo. He was 25 years old, 16 years older than Hana. Jungo did everything to adopt Hana and they became `family.` Since then, they lived together for 15 years, just two of them. Father and daughter were very close Jungo loved Hana with all his heart and soul. Hana loved him back just as much. The story of them starts from the rainy Tokyo evening in the year of 2008, just a day before the wedding of Hana. Then, the story goes backwards in time to their past, to Monbetsu 1993, just like flipping pages of an old photo album.

Achievements

*APM 2011 Busan Award
2014 Busan International Film Festival
2014 Moscow International Film Festival - competition
2014 Haifa International Film Festival
2014 Kaohsiung Film Festival
2014 Hong Kong Asian Film Festival
2014 Hawaii International Film Festival
2014 Brisbane Asia Pacific Film Festival

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