Kensaku KAKIMOTO 柿本ケンサク

Baumkuchen

Nippon Digital   ½ 

The Kawanobe brothers are looking for happiness through Baumkuchen and women. But visiting the bar there's nothing but trouble waiting. Meanwhile the novelist Masatoshi is writing about Yumi, whose heart is shut. Welcome to this bizarre odyssee.

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Baumkuchen (NC 2007)

Japan 2006

120 minutes

Director
Kensaku KAKIMOTO

Script
Kensaku KAKIMOTO, Kenji UTSUKI

Cinematography
Ryosuke KARIYA

Music
Tokyo No.1 Soul Set Jr., Yoshinori OHASHI

World sales
Bio-Tide Films

Cast
Mame YAMADA, Hiroshi YAMAMOTO, Shoichi HONDA, Sae ISSHIKI, Akiko MONO, Asami IMAJUKU

About Kensaku KAKIMOTO
柿本ケンサク

Kensaku KAKIMOTO, born in Kagawa Prefecture in 1982, is a filmmaker and photographer. In 2007, his feature film debut BAUMKUCHEN had its international premiere at the Nippon Connection Film Festival. After the triple disaster of March 2011, he made the documentary film LIGHT UP NIPPON (2012), to which Ryuichi SAKAMOTO contributed the soundtrack. His photographs have been shown regularly at international exhibitions since 2016, and he has received multiple awards for his work in the field of advertising.

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