Rikiya IMAIZUMI 今泉力哉
Their Distance
知らない、ふたり
Nippon Cinema ª
Leon, a young Korean shoe repairer who devotes himself to a monotonous daily routine, doesn’t realize that his coworker Kokaze has feelings for him. Instead, he falls for a mysterious girl he finds sleeping on a park bench, which leads to an entertaining and heartwarming tale, convincingly played out by various Kpop idols and young stars of the KoreanJapanese community.
知らない、ふたり
Shiranai, futari
Japan 2015
109 minutes
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.