DIRECTOR

Ryutaro Nakagawa "Summer Blooms"

CAST

Honoka Matsumoto "My Father, the Bride"
Daichi Watanabe "Asako I & II"
Eri Tokunaga "Rent a Friend"
Ken Mitsuishi "Himizu"

CREW

Screenplay by: Ryutaro Nakagawa, Harumi Uraki, Keitaro Sakon
Director of Photography: Ray Hirano “Summer Blooms”

Film Festivals & Awards

Moscow IFF 2019
Taipei IFF 2019
Hainan Island IFF 2019
AKi-No FF Israel 2019

Duration/Release

96 min./ Release in Japan: Nov 15, 2019 / Japan / Color / DCP / 5.1ch

Synopsis

20-year-old Mio has lost her parents early and runs a traditional Japanese inn in Nagano with her grandmother. As her grandmother gets sick and hospitalized, Mio is forced to leave the inn and reluctantly comes to Tokyo to live with her father's old friend Kyosuke.

Helping him at the bathhouse he runs, she begins to find her way in everyday life. One day, however, she learns the bathhouse is on the verge of demolition for the redevelopment in the district.