#Osaka Asian Film Festival 2022

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SANKA: Nomads of the Mountains 山歌 Director: Ryohei Sasatani [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2022] Rewrite

SANKA: Nomads of the Mountains 山歌 Director: Ryohei Sasatani [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2022] Rewrite @oaffpress #OAFF2022

Sanka: Nomads of the Mountains    山歌（サンカ）「Sanka」 Release Date: April 22nd, 2022 Duration: 77 mins. Director: Ryohei Sasatani Writer: Ryohei Sasatani (Screenplay), Starring: Rairu Sugita, Naru Komukai, Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Kisuke Iida, Shungiku Uchida, Yoko Ran, Website Films featuring the clash that occurs when the forces of modernisation meet tradition and the natural world are myriad. From the…

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Friday Saturday Sunday, 2022 a film by Pobmek Junlakarin

selected for Osaka Asian Film Festival 2023 in spotlight section

Teaser https://vimeo.com/747979709

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บทความ ลุ้น “4Kings” ติดโผชิง 2 รางวัลเทศกาลฯ “Osaka Asian Film Festival 2022” โดย iyeanzii เผยแพร่ February 18, 2022 at 04:21PM via DigitalMore

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ลุ้น “4Kings” ติดโผชิง 2 รางวัลเทศกาลฯ “Osaka Asian Film Festival 2022”

4Kings ได้รับการเสนอชื่อเข้าชิงถึง 2 รางวัล ได้แก่ Audience Award และ ABC Award ซึ่งผู้ชนะรางวัล ABC Award นี้ จะถูกซื้อลิขสิทธิ์ภาพยนตร์ไปฉายทางสถานีโทรทัศน์ ABC (Asahi Broadcasting Corporation) ประเทศญี่ปุ่น source https://digitalmore.co/4kings-osaka-asian-film-festival-2022/

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An Interview with Kasho Iizuka, Director of ANGRY SON [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2022]

An Interview with Kasho Iizuka, Director of ANGRY SON [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2022] @sekaboku_movie @oaffpress #OAFF2022

  Starting with his 2011 Pia Film Festival Special Jury Prize-winning autobiographical feature debut, Our Future, Kasho Iizuka has focused on the lives of people who don’t fit neatly into Japanese society. Iizuka’s latest feature Angry Son is his second 2022 release following his transgender relationship drama The World for the Two of Us. It tackles immigration and mixed-race experiences through…

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Angry Son 世界は僕らに気づかない Dir: Kasho Iizuka

Angry Son 世界は僕らに気づかない Dir: Kasho Iizuka @sekaboku_movie @oaffpress #OAFF2022

Angry Son      世界は僕らに気づかない 「Seikatsu wa Bokura ni Kidzukanai」 Release Date: 2022 Duration: 112 mins. Director: Kasho Iizuka Writer: Kasho Iizuka (Screenplay), Starring: Kazuki Horike, GOW, Masafumi Shinohara, Tomoka Murayama, Kenji Iwaya, Website    IMDB For transgender director Kasho Iizuka, representation matters. Starting with his 2011 Pia Film Festival Special Jury Prize-winning…

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Angry Son 世界は僕らに気づかない Dir: Kashou Iizuka

Angry Son 世界は僕らに気づかない Dir: Kashou Iizuka [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2022] @sekaboku_movie @oaffpress #OAFF2022

Angry Son      世界は僕らに気づかない 「Seikatsu wa Bokura ni Kidzukanai」 Release Date: 2022 Duration: 112 mins. Director: Kashou Iizuka Writer: Kashou Iizuka (Screenplay), Starring: Kazuki Horike, GOW, Masafumi Shinohara, Tomoka Murayama, Kenji Iwaya, Website    IMDB For transgender director Kashou Iizuka, representation matters. Starting with his 2011 Pia Film Festival Special Jury Prize-winning…

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An Interview with Fumito Fujikawa, Director of The Light of Spring [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2022/Five Flavours Film Festival 2022]

An Interview with Fumito Fujikawa, Director of The Light of Spring [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2022/Five Flavours Film Festival 2022] @oaffpress @Five_Flavours #OAFF2022 #FiveFlavours

With a background in both film and anthropology, Fumito Fujikawa’s career encompasses both documentary and drama and sometimes blurs the line between the two. He first came to international attention with his debut feature film The Name of the Whale, a family drama shot in the director’s home prefecture of Hiroshima and centred on a junior high school boy searching for fossils while his family…

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An Interview with Sae Suzuki, Director of Strangers [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2022]

An Interview with Sae Suzuki, Director of Strangers [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2022] @saesuzuki_x @oaffpress #OAFF2022

Sae Suzuki’s career as a filmmaker began when she enrolled in the Department of Body Expression at Rikkyo University and studied directing under director/critic Kunitoshi Manda. She then went on to study film directing under Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Nobuhiro Suwa at the Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts and her graduation film My Identity (2019) was selected for the …

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Strangers 人知れず Director: Sae Suzuki [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2022]

Strangers 人知れず Director: Sae Suzuki [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2022] @saesuzuki_x @oaffpress #OAFF2022

Strangers      人知れず 「Hitoshirezu」 Release Date: 2022 Duration: 38 mins. Director: Sae Suzuki Writer: Sae Suzuki (Screenplay), Starring: Manami Usamaru, Akihiro Yamamoto, Sayaka Nakakochi, Natsuki Murata, IMDB In the last few years Japan has been experiencing its own #MeToo moments as stories of power/sexual harassment have hit scandal mags and SNS. Such stories have taken down a variety of people…

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An Interview with Ryohei Sasatani, Director of SANKA: Nomads of the Mountains 山歌 [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2022]

An Interview with Ryohei Sasatani, Director of SANKA: Nomads of the Mountains 山歌 [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2022] @oaffpress #OAFF2022

Winner of Osaka Asian Film Festival 2021‘s Japan Cuts Award, Sanka: Nomads of the Mountains is the debut narrative feature of Ryohei Sasatani. Originally getting his start with documentaries, he has released a number of works that concern themes of human beings existing within nature. After winning the Scenario Grand Prix at Isama Studio Cinema Festival in Gunma Prefecture, production on…

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An Interview with Kahori Higashi, Director of Melting Sounds [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2022]

An Interview with Kahori Higashi, Director of Melting Sounds (Japanese and English) [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2022] @higashi_kahori @hotobori_movie @oaffpress #OAFF2022

Deceptively simple but quite profound, Melting Sounds is a very moving yet quietly funny first feature film from freelance designer-turned director Kahori Higashi. In her work, she ruminates on the issue of mortality in a unique way: a patchwork family record sounds of everyday life in a small town to create a “sound grave.” This consists of a mismatched group of a young woman named Koto…

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Melting Sounds ほとぼりメルトサウンズ Director: Kahori Higashi [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2022] Rewrite

Melting Sounds ほとぼりメルトサウンズ Director: Kahori Higashi [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2022] @higashi_kahori @hotobori_movie @oaffpress #OAFF2022

Melting Sounds        ほとぼりメルトサウンズ 「Hotobori Meruto Saunzu」 Release Date: July 16th, 2022 Duration: 80 mins. Director: Kahori Higashi Writer: Kahori Higashi, Yuichi Nagatsuma (Screenplay), Starring: xiangyu, Keiichi Suzuki, Amon Hirai, Umeno Uno, Tadashi Sakata, Melting Sounds is part of the latest wave of films associated with MOOSIC LAB, a competition wherein the films submitted feature…

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An Interview with Shuichi Kawanobe, Director of Our House Party [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2022/Rainbow Reel Tokyo 2022]

An Interview with Shuichi Kawanobe, Director of Our House Party [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2022] @oaffpress #OAFF2022 @BokupaM @RRT_TILGFF

Japanese cinema has many gay-themed films in its canon. Titles that come to mind include Hush! (2001), Okoge and Twinkle (both 1992), Funeral Parade of Roses (1969) and Afternoon Breezes (1980). We are also currently living through a boom in adaptations of Boys Love (BL) manga with titles like The Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese (2020) and even stories about people who like the genre like BL…

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Our House Party ボクらのホームパーティー (2022) Director: Shuichi Kawanobe [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2022]

Our House Party ボクらのホームパーティー (2022) Director: Shuichi Kawanobe [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2022] @oaffpress #OAFF2022 @BokupaM @RRT_TILGFF

Our House Party  ボクらのホームパーティー 「Bokura no Ho-mu Pa-ti-」 Release Date: 2022 Duration: 80 mins. Director: Shuichi Kawanobe Writer: Shuichi Kawanobe, Hiroaki Nosaka (Screenplay), Starring: Takashi Hashizume, Keiichi Kageyama, Ryo Matsumoto, Hiroshi Yokoro, Keigo Unohara, The desires for love and equal treatment felt by gay men are given voice by Shuichi Kawanobe in his indie ensemble drama Our House…

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An Interview with Azusa Hieda, Director of Summer Wedding [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2022]

An Interview with Azusa Hieda, Director of Summer Wedding [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2022] @oaffpress #OAFF2022 @AZUxx14 @rika_kurosawa

Azusa Hieda’a short film Summer Wedding received its World Premiere at the Osaka Asian Film Festival 2022 where it was one of the few films to directly use the Covid-19 in its narrative. In her work, writer/director Hieda utilised social isolation during the pandemic to offer a space for two lovers, a bride (Rika Kurosawa) and her groom (Daiki Nunami), to change their lives in unexpected ways.…