SKIP CITY INTERNATIONAL D-Cinema FESTIVAL

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Short Length Competition

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Short3 (Total 73min.)

Little Kyota Neon Hood/No Longer There/When The World Tastes Gritty

  7.15(Mon) 11:00 7.17(Wed) 17:00 

 

Little Kyota Neon Hood

<2012/Japan/20min.>

Ten-year-old Kyota wears protective headgear wherever he goes and is always writing down English words he comes across. One day, English teacher Tim, who had left Japan after the earthquake had struck, comes back.

Little Kyota Neon Hood
© Little Kyota Neon Hood

Director:Satsuki Okawa

Cast:Kaede Tsuchiya, Andrew Dow, Misa Shimizu, HARCO, Takeshi Tanaka

 

Director/Satsuki Okawa

Director/Satsuki OkawaBorn in Tokyo, Okawa studied filmmaking at Nihon University College of Art and the graduate school at Columbia University School of the Arts. Her short film Little Kyota Neon Hood was chosen as a Best 10 Film at San Paulo International Short Film Festival, and won two awards at Yubari Fantastic Film Festival and many others at film festivals in Japan and abroad. In 2013, she also directed Koyuki’s Wandering Football, a short film celebrating the 20th anniversary of J.League, which will screen at a festival this year.

 

 

 

No Longer There

<2012/Japan/23min.>

A woman loses her teeth in an accident. A dental technician who creates artificial teeth fantasizes about the woman for whom he creates the teeth. The imaginary relationship was supposed to end when the teeth were completed, but he decides to take one step further.

No Longer There
© Gazebo Film

Director:Nobuyuki Miyake

Cast:Akinori Doi, Anri Nakamura, Kohei Nishiyama, Yoi Kojima, Takumi Ito, Michiko Hoshi

 

Director/Nobuyuki Miyake

Director/Nobuyuki MiyakeBorn in Kyoto, Miyake graduated from the MFA program at City College of New York. His first feature film Lost & Found (2008) won the Best Picture Award at Austin Film Festival. He directed a segment of Te no hira no shosetsu (2008), an omnibus film screened at Tokyo International Film Festival. He also directed a short film Raft (2011) as part of the New Directions in Japanese Cinema program.

 

 

 

When The World Tastes Gritty

<2013/Japan/30min.>

A woman visits a shop to buy tools to bury her “luggage”. A man steals from shops to escape from pressures at work. The unlikely pair meet at a suburban home center and end up heading to a lake in a car.

When The World Tastes Gritty
© KUMAGAI

Director:Madoka Kumagai

Cast:Yoshimasa Kondo, Makiko Watanabe, Sakiko Bokumoto

 

Director/Madoka Kumagai

Director/Madoka KumagaiBorn in Osaka, Kumagai worked at a commercial production company for three years. Her short films include How to Make a Roll Cabbage (2005), which won the Best Entertainment Award at Pia Film Festival, Hakko (2006), which won the Best Film at Pia Film Festival, and Usotsuki onnna no akenai yoake (2008) as part of the New Directions in Japanese Cinema program.

 

 

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