Daihachi YOSHIDA 吉田大八
Teki Cometh
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Nippon Cinema ª
Widowed and retired professor Gisuke Watanabe’s modest life is made less lonely by visits from former students. But he is increasingly disturbed by fear of an “enemy” whom he reads about on the Internet. Daihachi YOSHIDA’s haunting black-and-white exploration of paranoia won the Grand Prix and the Awards for Best Actor and Best Director at the 2024 Tokyo International Film Festival.
Fri., May 30, 2025, 14:15
Mousonturm Saal
German premiere
Original with English subtitles
NOT approved for persons under 18 years (NC has not applied for age rating)
Mystery Obsessions Social issues
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Teki
Japan 2024
108 minutes
Director
Daihachi YOSHIDA
Script
Daihachi YOSHIDA based on a novel by Yasutaka TSUTSUI
Cinematography
Hidetoshi SHINOMIYA
World sales
Happinet Phantom Studios
Cast
Kyozo NAGATSUKA, Kumi TAKIUCHI, Yumi KAWAI, Asuka KUROSAWA, Takashi MATSUO
About Daihachi YOSHIDA
吉田大八
Daihachi YOSHIDA, born in Kagoshima Prefecture in 1963, studied at Waseda University and won numerous prizes for commercial ads. His first theatrical release FUNUKE SHOW SOME LOVE, YOU LOSERS! (2007 / NC ’08) was invited to the Semaine de la Critique at Cannes. In 2012, he received the Japan Academy Film Prize as Best Director and for the Best Film with THE KIRISHIMA THING (2012 / NC ’13). His film PALE MOON (2014 / NC ’15) was also screened at Nippon Connection. TEKI COMETH (2024 / NC ’25) received multiple awards at the 2024 Tokyo International Film Festival.