Naoki KATO
A Bao A Qu
Nippon Cinema ª
Nine years ago Shinpei burst onto the literary scene with a book based on an actual mass murder incident. Now he is writing the sequel, focusing on the murderers younger brother Harumi. But Harumi refuses to stay within the fictional borders of the book ... The film’s precise tension creates an entrancing atmosphere of laconic dread.
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A Bao A Qu (NC 2008)
Japan 2007
87 minutes
Production
Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
World sales
Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
About Naoki KATO
Naoki KATO was born in Tokyo in 1980 and studied film at Tokyo University of the Arts with Kiyoshi KUROSAWA and Takeshi KITANO, among others. In 2007 he debuted as a director with his internationally successful film A BAO A QU.