Naoko OGIGAMI
Yoshino's Barber Shop
Nippon Cinema ª
A small town somewhere in Japan: Tradition is very important and therefore every boy has to wear the same haircut. One day, a boy from Tokyo arrives with dyed hair! Yoshino, the barber, wants to keep things as they were, but the boys are beginning to resist. How long can the tradition be preserved?
Related Events:
Yoshino's Barber Shop (NC 2004)
Japan 2003
96 minutes
Production
PIA Film Festival
World sales
PIA Film Festival
Cast
Masako MOTAI, Ryo YONEDA, Kazuyuki ASANO, Senri SAKURAI
About Naoko OGIGAMI
Naoko OGIGAMI, born in Chiba Prefecture in 1972, moved to the USA in 1994 to study film at the University of Southern California. She then worked on commercials and made her first short films before making her feature film debut YOSHINO’S BARBER SHOP (2003 / NC ’04). Her film GLASSES (2007 / NC ’10) was awarded the Manfred Salzgeber Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival 2007 and her queer drama CLOSE-KNIT (2017) also received numerous awards, including the Teddy Award at the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival.