Hirobumi WATANABE 渡辺紘文
Poolsideman
プールサイドマン
Nippon Visions ½
Yasuzo works as a lifeguard at a local swimming pool. Leading a lonely and monotonic life, no one is aware of what lurks beneath his cool surface. POOLSIDEMAN, winner of the “Japanese Cinema Splash Award” at the 2016 Tokyo International Film Festival, creates a tense atmosphere with long takes and monochrome images while developing a psychogram of its inscrutable protagonist.
Winner of the Nippon Visions Jury Award
2017
プールサイドマン
Japan 2016
117 minutes
Production
Foolish Piggies Films
World sales
Article Films
Cast
Gaku IMAMURA, Hirobumi WATANABE, Misao HIRAYAMA, Takanori KUROSAKI, Kodo TODA
About Hirobumi WATANABE
渡辺紘文
Hirobumi WATANABE was born in Tochigi in 1982. After graduating from the Japan Institute of the Moving Image, he founded the production company Foolish Piggies Films with his brother, the film composer Yuji WATANABE. Starting with his debut AND THE MUD SHIP SAILS AWAY (2013 / NC ’14), his films have been screened regularly at Nippon Connection, amongst them PARTY ’ROUND THE GLOBE (2017 / NC ’18) and LIFE FINDS A WAY (2018 / NC ’19). His third feature POOLSIDEMAN (2016 / NC ’17) won the Japanese Cinema Splash Award at the Tokyo International Film Festival as well as the NIPPON VISIONS JURY AWARD.