Nobuhiro YAMASHITA 山下敦弘
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1971: After graduating from university, enthusiastic young journalist Sawada gets a job at a leftist newspaper. His boss gives him the chance to interview one of the leading radicals of the student movement. When Sawada meets the charismatic Umeyama it seems they have more in common than supposed. YAMASHITA has created an authentic drama based on the autobiography of film critic Saburo KAWAMOTO.
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Japan 2011
141 minutes
Director
Nobuhiro YAMASHITA
Script
Kosuke MUKAI based on an autobiography by Saburo KAWAMOTO
Cinematography
Ryuto KONDO
Music
Mito, Shunsuke KIDA
Production
Match Point production, Wowow
World sales
Bitters End
Cast
Satoshi TSUMABUKI, Kenichi MATSUYAMA, Shihori KATSUNA, Anna ISHIBASHI, Hanae KAN
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.