Yu KAJINO

Be Still, My Beating Heart

Nippon Digital   ½ 

Be still, my beating heart: "Expression of excitement when seeing the object of one's romantic affections." - Influenced by his older brother and his fiancée who are about to get married, the protagonist goes out with a girl introduced to him by a co-worker, but it does not work out.

Japan 2005

48 minutes

Director
Yu KAJINO

Script
Yu KAJINO

Cinematography
Sayaka NAKAMURA

Music
Ei KAWANO

About Yu KAJINO

Yu KAJINO was born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1978 and started shooting films with a cheap video camera after graduating from high school. After his university graduation, he founded the production company Caterpillar Films and made numerous short films, one of which, BE STILL, MY BEATING HEART (2005), was also screened at NIPPON CONNECTION in 2007. AHUM is his feature-length debut, which had its world premiere at the 2018 Kanazawa Film Festival.