| Director: | Hirokazu Koreeda |
|---|---|
| Production: | K2 Pictures (Daiju Koide) |
| Running Time: | 100’ |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Country: | Japan |
| Main Cast: | Natsuki Deguchi, Aju Makita, Furi Nanase, Rokka Okada, Masaki Suda, Kankuro Kudo, Kayo Noro |
| Screenplay: | Hirokazu Koreeda |
| Cinematographer: | Senzo Ueno |
| Editor: | Hirokazu Koreeda |
| Production Designer: | Shinsuke Kojima |
| Costume Designer: | Sacico Ito |
| Music: | Yuta Bandoh |
| Sound: | Kazuhiko Tomita |
| Visual Effects: | Linto Ueda |
Cinema
Look Back
Venezia 83 Competition
Synopsis
Fujino, a gifted and determined teenager, is confident in her talent as an aspiring manga artist while the reclusive Kyomoto rarely leaves her room, devoting herself entirely to drawing. Brought together by their shared passion, the two small-town girls pursue their dream of becoming manga artists over the course of thirteen years.
Director’s Statement
On a return trip from Kyoto by bullet train, I was attracted by “the back” on the cover of a book, stacked up on display at a bookstore in Shinagawa station, and instinctively picked it up – that was how I first encountered the original manga Look Back.
That night, I read it in a breath.
The manga strikingly delivers the author’s determination. Although manga and film are different genres, as a fellow creator, I felt with a searing clarity that author Tatsuki Fujimoto simply couldn’t move forward without creating this work.
For me, Dare mo shiranai was that kind of work. Upon making the film adaptation, I tried to carefully depict the span of time in which the two girls, Fujino, who draws the characters, and Kyomoto, who draws the backgrounds, meet as if destined to do so, and together nurture a strong bond. The film captures the two (four actors) for about a year and a half through the four seasons of the Tōhoku region.
As the story follows the growth of these two manga artists, sound is also a crucial element. The sound of them drawing manga, changing over time, plays a major role in the film as a non-verbal form of expression, alongside the music.
The encounter with the original manga demanded a sense of determination from me – both as a creator and as a person – and gave me encouragement. I hope this film will be that kind of work for others as well.
Production/Distribution
PRODUCTION:
K2Pictures Inc. - Daiju KOIDE,
Kowa No.35 Building 4th floor, Akasaka 1-14-14, Minato-ku
107-0052 Tokyo, Japan
Tel: +81 344003855
E-mail: info@k2pic.com
WORLD SALES:
Goodfellas - Solene Michel
73 Rue St-Anne
75002 Paris, France
E-mail: sales@goodfellas.film
Web: https://goodfellas.film/
Social Media: @goodfellas_cinema - Instagram
ITALIAN DISTRIBUTION:
Lucky Red – Alessandra Tieri
Largo Italo Gemini, 1
00161 Roma, Italy
Tel: +39.3358480787
E-mail: a.tieri@luckyred.it
Web: http://www.luckyred.it
Social Media: @luckyred - Instagram
PRESS OFFICE:
Manlin Sterner
Tel: +46 763769933
E-mail: manlin@manlin.se
ITALIAN PRESS OFFICE:
Alessandra Tieri - Lucky Red
Tel: +39.335.8480787
E-mail: a.tieri@luckyred.it
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