Nobuhiro YAMASHITA 山下敦弘
My Uncle
ぼくのおじさん
Nippon Cinema ª
Yukio’s uncle is a prime example of a freeloader. The long-term doctoral student stays in bed all day, reading comic books. But when he meets the beautiful Eri, his life is thrown off course. In this dramatization of Morio KITA’s novel, YAMASHITA presents us with an unlikely duo. Fast-paced and full of dry humor, the film revisits one of the director’s most beloved characters: the slacker.
ぼくのおじさん
Boku no ojisan
Japan 2016
110 minutes
Director
Nobuhiro YAMASHITA
Script
Yasushi SUTO based on a novel by Morio KITA
Production
Toei
World sales
Toei
Cast
Ryuhei MATSUDA, Yoko MAKI, Riku ONISHI, Shinobu TERAJIMA, Shigeyuki TOTSUGI
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.