Yuya ISHII 石井裕也
Sawako Decides
川の底からこんにちは
Nippon Cinema ª
Down on her luck, Sawako is living in Tokyo now for the 5th year, working on her 5th job and her 5th relationship doesn’t look too promising. As her father falls ill, she has to take over the family’s mussel farming business and confront her past. With deadpan humor and inspiring songs, Yuya ISHII not only creates great comedy, but presents his solution for the economy crisis, too.
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Sawako Decides (NC 2010)
川の底からこんにちは
Kawa no soko kara konnichi wa
Japan 2009
112 minutes
Director
Yuya ISHII
Script
Yuya ISHII
Cinematography
Yukihiro OKIMURA
Music
Samon IMAMURA, Chiaki NOMURA
Production
Avex Digital, Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS), PIA Film Festival
World sales
PIA Film Festival
Cast
Hikari MITSUSHIMA, Masashi ENDO, Kira AIHARA, Ryo IWAMATSU
About Yuya ISHII
石井裕也
Yuya ISHII, born in Saitama Prefecture in 1983, graduated from Osaka University of Arts. His graduation film and feature-length debut BARE-ASSED JAPAN (2005) was invited to the International Film Festival Rotterdam. His film SAWAKO DECIDES (2010 / NC ’10) had its world premiere at the Berlinale Forum. He won all important Japanese film awards as best director and received an Oscar nomination for THE GREAT PASSAGE (2013). After several big budget films, he returned to his roots in independent filmmaking with THE TOKYO NIGHT SKY IS ALWAYS THE DENSEST SHADE OF BLUE (2017 / NC ’17).