Haru's Journey
Japan
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2010
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Color
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134 min
This directory compiles the glossaries from all editions of Cines del Sur: eleven already held and the twelfth currently underway. It serves as a living memory of the festival, its films, guests, sections, and spaces for reflection on the cinemas of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Arab world. Here you can trace the evolution of its programming, rediscover filmmakers, and follow the thematic threads that have defined Cines del Sur's identity as a meeting point for cultures, perspectives, and ways of understanding cinema from the Global South.
Tadao is an elderly retired fisherman who lives with his granddaughter Haru in a small village in Hokkaido, northern Japan. When the school where the young woman works closes, she decides to head to Tokyo in search of more opportunities. However, she first needs to find a relative to take care of her grandfather. In the form of a road movie that gradually takes on melodramatic tones, Haru's Journey explores the progressive rapprochement of its two main characters, while also examining traditional values of Japanese culture such as filial piety. Blending irreverence and tenderness, Masahiro Kobayashi's most recent feature film delves into the difficulties of life and the importance of human relationships.
Technical Details
Direction:
Masahiro Kobayashi
Cinematography:
Kenji Takama
Music:
Junpei Sakuma
Language:
Japanese
Production:
Muneyuki Kii, Naoko Kobayashi
Art Direction:
Junya Kawase
Sound:
Shin Fukuda
Subtitles:
English and Spanish
Screenplay:
Masahiro Kobayashi
Editing:
Naoki Kaneko
Cast:
Tatsuya Nakadai (Tadao Nakai), Eri Tokunaga (Haru), Hideji Otaki (Shigeo),Kin Sugai (Keiko), Kaoru Kobayashi (Kinoshita), Yuko Tanaka (Shimizu Aiko),Chikage Awashima (Shigeko), Akira Emoto (Michio)
Director
Masahiro Kobayashi
Born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1954. In 1980, he left Japan and traveled to France with the desire to meet François Truffaut and become his assistant. Unfortunately, they never met. Back in Tokyo, Kobayashi wrote several screenplays for television and soon after directed his debut film: Closing Time. With this film, he became the first Japanese director to win the Grand Prize at the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival in 1997. That same year, he founded Monkey Town Productions. His next three projects were awarded at the Cannes International Film Festival; while one of his later films, Bashing, won the Grand Prize at Tokyo Filmex 2006. In 2007, he presented The Rebirth, a feature film that earned him three awards at the Locarno Festival and was screened at the second edition of Cines del Sur.
