Daihachi YOSHIDA 吉田大八
Pale Moon
紙の月
Nippon Cinema ª
Demure and unhappily married bank employee Rika begins to embezzle her customers’ money to afford a luxurious lifestyle with her much younger lover. But soon she finds herself in a seemingly unstoppable downward spiral. Set during the economic crisis of the 1990s, PALE MOON tells a thrilling moral tale, winning the audience award at 2014’s Tokyo International Film Festival.
紙の月
Kami no tsuki
Japan 2014
126 minutes
Director
Daihachi YOSHIDA
Script
Kaeko HAYAFUNE based on a novel by Mitsuyo KAKUTA
Cinematography
Makoto SHIGUMA
Music
little moa, Yuki ONO, Tatsuo YAMAGUCHI
Production
Robot Communications
World sales
Shochiku
About Daihachi YOSHIDA
吉田大八
Daihachi YOSHIDA, born in Kagoshima Prefecture in 1963, studied at Waseda University and won numerous prizes for commercial ads. His first theatrical release FUNUKE SHOW SOME LOVE, YOU LOSERS! (2007 / NC ’08) was invited to the Semaine de la Critique at Cannes. In 2012, he received the Japan Academy Film Prize as Best Director and for the Best Film with THE KIRISHIMA THING (2012 / NC ’13). His film PALE MOON (2014 / NC ’15) was also screened at Nippon Connection. TEKI COMETH (2024 / NC ’25) received multiple awards at the 2024 Tokyo International Film Festival.