Still the Water
Japan
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2014
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Color
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121 min
On Amami Island, where nature and the sacred coexist in delicate balance, its inhabitants believe that a god resides in every tree, every stone, and every plant. In this setting, suspended between tradition and mystery, one summer afternoon, young Kaito discovers the lifeless body of a man floating in the sea. Stunned by the discovery, he finds the necessary support in his friend Kyoko to try and decipher what happened. Together, they embark on a journey of discovery that will confront them, for the first time, with the complexities of the adult world. As the mystery silently unfolds around them, both will learn to live with life's inevitable cycles: love, death, and loss.
Technical Details
Direction:
Naomi Kawase
Cinematography:
Yutaka Yamazaki
Language:
Japanese
Production:
Takehiko Aoki, Naomi Kawase, Luis Miñarro
Sound:
Shigetake Ao
Subtitles:
Spanish
Screenplay:
Naomi Kawase
Editing:
Shôtarô Anraku, Tina Baz, Naomi Kawase
Cast:
Nijirô Murakami, Junko Abe, Miyuki Matsuda, Tetta Sugimoto
Director
Naomi Kawase
Born and raised in Japan's Nara Prefecture, Naomi Kawase graduated in Visual Arts in Osaka in 1989, beginning a cinematic career deeply marked by memory, intimacy, and the observation of human connections. Her early documentary works, *Embracing* and *Katatsumori*, earned international recognition and awards at the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival in 1995, establishing her unique authorial voice within contemporary Japanese cinema from an early stage. In 1997, she made her fiction feature debut with *Suzaku*, a film that made her the youngest filmmaker to receive the Caméra d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Since then, her relationship with the French festival has been constant and distinguished: in 2007, she won the Grand Prix du Jury for *The Mourning Forest*, and later received the Carrosse d’Or at Cannes. The poetic and humanist sensibility of her filmography has also earned her significant institutional accolades.
