Ryuichi SHIMADA 島田隆一

Nowhere To Go

ドコニモイケナイ

Nippon Visions   ½ 

NOWHERE TO GO is the portrait of Hisato YOSHIMURA, a young musician on the streets of Tokyo's Shibuya ward. What could have moved this young woman to be a street performer, what are her dreams? After initial success, Hisato is diagnosed with schizophrenia and has to return to her family home. 8 years later, the film crew decides to meet her again.


Guests:
Ryuichi SHIMADA

Sat., June 08, 2013, 22:30

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NAXOS Cinema

International premiere in presence of the director Ryuichi SHIMADA

Original with English subtitles

ドコニモイケナイ
Doko ni mo ikenai

Japan 2011

86 minutes

Production
JyaJya Films

World sales
JyaJya Films

About Ryuichi SHIMADA
島田隆一

Ryuichi SHIMADA was born in Tokyo Prefecture in 1981. After graduating from the Japan Institute of the Moving Image, he worked as an assistant director and also made many industrial PR videos. For his first feature-length film NOWHERE TO GO, he received the New Directors Award of the Directors Guild of Japan. After that, he has worked for many film projects as producer and editor. UNDER THE CHERRY TREE (2015 / NC ’16), which he produced, won the Nippon Visions Audience Award in 2016 and other awards. He is currently a professor at the Japan Institute of the Moving Image.