Rikiya IMAIZUMI 今泉力哉
his
Nippon Cinema ª
Supported by a rural community of elders, a same-sex stepfamily finds strength for a custody battle and rediscovers love. Director Rikiya IMAIZUMI plays with antithetical concepts of parenthood and deeply ingrained stereotypes but never pushes an agenda.
Japan 2020
127 minutes
Production
“his” Film Partners
World sales
Nagoya Broadcasting Network
Cast
Hio MIYAZAWA, Kisetsu FUJIWARA, Wakana MATSUMOTO, Honoka MATSUMOTO, Keiko TODA
About Rikiya IMAIZUMI
今泉力哉
Rikiya IMAIZUMI, born in Fukushima Prefecture in 1981, made his commercial feature-length debut A FILM OF TAMA in 2010 after creating several short films. His feature films such as I CATCH A TERRIBLE CAT (2012), SAD TEA (2013), and THEIR DISTANCE (2015 / NC ’16) were screened at numerous international film festivals. With HIS (2020 / NC ’21), he won the NIPPON CINEMA AWARD 2021 at Nippon Connection.