Nobuhiro YAMASHITA 山下敦弘

The Matsugane Potshot Affair

Nippon Cinema   ª 

A dead woman on the street of the dead-end hick village of Matsugane. While policeman Kôtarô tries to unravel the mystery, his family is on his back and seems somehow mixed up with the incident... YAMASHITA's trademark black humor goes one shade darker in this wonderfully painful crime story.

Japan 2006

112 minutes

Director
Nobuhiro YAMASHITA

Script
Kosuke MUKAI, Kumiko SATO

Cinematography
Takahiro TSUTAI

Music
PASCALS

About Nobuhiro YAMASHITA
山下敦弘

Nobuhiro YAMASHITA, born in Aichi Prefecture in 1976, studied at Osaka University of Arts and started his career at Planet Studyo +1 in Osaka. His feature film debut HAZY LIFE (1999) was an international success and was screened in 2000 at the first Nippon Connection Film Festival. He had his commercial breakthrough with the comedy LINDA LINDA LINDA (2005 / NC ’08). Establishing his distinctive style with his subsequent works, including A GENTLE BREEZE IN THE VILLAGE (2007 / NC ’07), TAMAKO IN MORATORIUM (2013 / NC ’14), and OVER THE FENCE (2016 / NC ’17), YAMASHITA has become one of the major protagonists of the Japanese film industry.