Akiko SUGIMOTO 杉本曉子
Danchi Woman
Nippon Docs ¾
85 years old and never married, Shizu UCHIKOSHI has been living in a “danchi”, a public housing complex, for over 30 years. When the building is condemned, she and the other tenants are faced with the question of how their lives will change. Akiko SUGIMOTOs intimate documentary captures the humor and nostalgia of its protagonist.
Japan 2017
66 minutes
Director
Akiko SUGIMOTO
Cinematography
Kazuhiro TERAUCHI, Naoshi YAMAMOTO
Production
IMPLEO, Assemblage K.K.
World sales
IMPLEO
About Akiko SUGIMOTO
杉本曉子
Born in Tokyo in 1979, Akiko SUGIMOTO worked for a television production company after graduating from university. In 2008, she began visiting a danchi apartment complex in Yokohama to shoot her first film SEASIDE ROAD DANCHI STORY (2009).