Japan Institute Of The Moving Image: Short Docs
Taku AOYAGI 青柳拓
The Road He Walks: A Story of He-Kun
ひいくんの歩く町
Hidehiko, also known as He-kun, is 38 years old and lives with his mother in the provincial city of Ichikawamisato, famous for its paper production and spectacular fireworks. He spends each day wandering the streets, doing odd jobs here and there. Taku AOYAGI brings us the story of a very normal, but also very special, person.
ひいくんの歩く町
Hiikun no aruku machi
Japan 2017
47 minutes
Director
Taku AOYAGI
Cinematography
Mitsumasa YAMANOME
Production
Japan Institute of the Moving Image
World sales
Japan Institute of the Moving Image
About Taku AOYAGI
青柳拓
Taku AOYAGI, born in Yamanashi Prefecture in 1993, studied at the Japan Institute of the Moving Image. In 2018, he premiered his graduation film THE ROAD HE WALKS: A STORY OF HE-KUN (2017 / NC ’18) internationally at Nippon Connection. TOKYO UBER BLUES (2022 / NC ’23) is his first feature-length documentary.
Hayato OBIKI
Crossing Road
交差
Several people were killed or injured in an attack in the Tokyo district Akihabara in 2008. Via an exchange of letters between the attacker and one of the survivors, Hayato OBIKI attempts to find some sort of reasoning or motivation behind these terrible attacks. Is it possible to discover the “true” personality of the attacker?