Hirobumi WATANABE 渡辺紘文
Life Finds A Way
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Nippon Visions ½
Born out of every artist’s creative crisis, the search for the next topic, Hirobumi WATANABE presents his latest film, dealing with the question of what his film should be about. The director stages himself as he idles away his days, delivering endless monologs during car rides, sleeping on the floor at his grandma’s house, or philosophizing over video games and the FIFA World Cup.
普通は走り出す
Futsu wa hashiridasu
Japan 2018
110 minutes
Production
Foolish Piggies Films
World sales
Article Films
Cast
Hirobumi WATANABE, Minori HAGIWARA, Marika MATSUMOTO, Yako KOGA, Chihiro NAGAI
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.