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Acclaimed director Chie Hayakawa depicts an entrancing poetic journey about resilience, the healing power of the imagination and a traumatized family struggling for connection.
Suburban Tokyo, 1987. 11-year-old Fuki’s father, Keiji, is battling a terminal illness, and in and out of hospital. Her mother, Utako, is constantly stressed out from caring for Keiji while holding down a full-time job. Left alone with her rich imagination, Fuki becomes fascinated by telepathy and falls ever deeper into her own fantasy world...

Credits

Director
Chie Hayakawa
Screenwriter
Chie Hayakawa
Producer
Eiko Mizuno-Gray, Jason Gray, Keisuke Konishi, Christophe Bruncher, Fran Borgia
Executive Producer
Keisuke Konishi, Eiko Mizuno-Gray, Mizue Kunizane, Masahide Kinoshita, Eitaro Kobayashi, Jossette C. Atayde, Maria Sophia Atayde-Marudo, Fran Borgia
Co-Producer
Jossette C. Atayde, Alemberg Ang, Olivier Père & Rémi Burah, Yulia Evina Bhara, Amerta Kusuma, Amel Lacombe
Cinematographer
Hideho Urata
Production Company
Loaded Films, Happinet Phantom Studios, Ici et Là Productions, Akanga Film Asia, Dongyu Club, Kinofaction, Ten Carat
Sales Company
Goodfellas
Sound
Philippe Grivel, Yves Servageant
Composer
Rémi Boubal
Music
Rémi Boubal
Set Designer
Keiko Mitsumatsu
Cast
Yui Suzuki
Lily Franky
Hikari Ishida
Ayumu Nakajima
Yuumi Kawai
Ryota Bando

About the Director

Chie Hayakawa
Chie Hayakawa is a Japanese director and screenwriter based in Tokyo. A graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York (2001), her early short films were exhibited at the school’s gallery and screened at international film festivals. After several years in the United States, she returned to Tokyo in 2008, where she continued to refine her craft. Hayakawa’s thesis film, ‘Niagara’ (2014), receive
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