Yujiro HARUMOTO 春本雄二郎
Going The Distance
かぞくへ
Nippon Visions ½
Asahi and Kaori are a happy couple and plan to marry soon. But Kaori’s mother looks down on a prospective son-in-law who grew up in an orphanage and works as a boxing trainer. Things become more complicated when Asahi tries to help his best friend Hiroto who has been scammed by a shady businessman. Yujiro HARUMOTO tells an unsentimental yet compelling story about loyalty, friendship, and family.
Special Mention –
Nippon Visions Jury Award
2017
かぞくへ
Kazoku e
Japan 2016
117 minutes
Production
Yujiro HARUMOTO
World sales
Article Films
Cast
Shinichiro MATSUURA, Masahiro UMEDA, Yumi ENDO, Nobu MORIMOTO, Koji MITSUMIZO
About Yujiro HARUMOTO
春本雄二郎
Yujiro HARUMOTO, born in Kobe in 1978, first worked at Shochiku Kyoto as an assistant director for historical films and TV series after graduating from Nihon University College of Art. He then worked as a freelance assistant director for numerous other film and TV productions. His feature film debut GOING THE DISTANCE (2016 / NC ’17) received an honorary mention of the NIPPON VISIONS jury at the 2017 Nippon Connection Film Festival. With his second feature-length film A BALANCE (2021 / NC ’22), which he produced, wrote and edited himself, he was featured at the 2021 Berlinale in the PANORAMA section.