Nobuhiro YAMASHITA 山下敦弘

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1971: After graduating from university, enthusiastic young journalist Sawada gets a job at a leftist newspaper. His boss gives him the chance to interview one of the leading radicals of the student movement. When Sawada meets the charismatic Umeyama it seems they have more in common than supposed. YAMASHITA has created an authentic drama based on the autobiography of film critic Saburo KAWAMOTO.

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日本 2011

141 分

監督
山下敦弘

脚本
Kosuke MUKAI Saburo KAWAMOTOの自伝を基に

撮影
Ryuto KONDO

音楽
Mito, Shunsuke KIDA

About Nobuhiro YAMASHITA
山下敦弘

Nobuhiro YAMASHITA, born in Aichi in 1976, studied at Osaka University of Arts and started his career at Planet Studyo +1 in Osaka. His feature film debut HAZY LIFE (1999 / NC ’00), an international success, was screened in 2000 at the first NIPPON CONNECTION Film Festival and won the Off Theatre Prize at Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival. He had his commercial breakthrough with the comedy LINDA LINDA LINDA (2005 / NC ’08). Establishing his distinctive style with his further works such as A GENTLE BREEZE IN THE VILLAGE (2007 / NC ’07), TAMAKO IN MORATORIUM (2013 / NC ’14) and OVER THE FENCE (2016 / NC ’17), YAMASHITA has become one of the major protagonists of the Japanese film industry.