Eisuke NAITO 内藤瑛亮
Replay: Forgiven Children
Nippon Visions ½
While fooling around with a self-made crossbow, Kira accidentally kills his classmate Itsuki. For lack of evidence, the young student is found innocent. However, his trial is widely covered by the mass media, and the following uproar from society won’t leave his family untouched. Based on the question “How would I react to my child commiting a crime?”, Eisuke NAITO repeatedly switches angles from youth to parenthood, creating a bleak and compelling drama that blurs the borders between perpetrator and victim.
許された子どもたち
Yurusareta kodomotachi
日本 2020
131 分
製作
Naito-gumi
海外セールス
L’espace Film
キャスト
Yu UEMURA, Yoshi KUROIWA, Yukino NAGURA, Takuya ABE, Akana IKEDA
About Eisuke NAITO
内藤瑛亮
Eisuke NAITO, born in Aichi Prefecture in 1982, graduated from the Film School of Tokyo and subsequently began directing independent movies while working as a teacher at a special education school. His short film THE PRINCE OF MILK (2008) was invited to Nippon Connection in 2010 and also to many other international film festivals. LET’S-MAKE-THE-TEACHER-HAVE-A-MISCARRIAGE CLUB (2011 / NC ’11), NAITOs feature length debut, sparked controversy, not only due to its title. Recently, with LITCHI HIKARI CLUB (2016) and LIVERLEAF (2018), he also directed manga adaptations.