| Director: | Ryusuke Hamaguchi |
|---|---|
| Production: | NEOPA (Satoshi Takata) |
| Running Time: | 106’ |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Country: | Japan |
| Main Cast: | Hitoshi Omika, Ryo Nishikawa, Ryuji Kosaka, Ayaka Shibutani, Hazuki Kikuchi, Hiroyuki Miura |
| Screenplay: | Ryūsuke Hamaguchi |
| Cinematographer: | Yoshio Kitagawa |
| Editor: | Ryūsuke Hamaguchi, Azusa Yamazaki |
| Production Designer: | Masato Nunobe |
| Music: | Eiko Ishibashi |
| Sound: | Izumi Matsuno |
| Visual Effects: | Tetsuya Shiraishi |
Cinema
Aku wa sonzai shinai (Evil Does Not Exist)
Venezia 80 Competition
Synopsis
Takumi and his daughter Hana live in Mizubiki Village, close to Tokyo. Like generations before them, they live a modest life according to the cycles and order of nature. One day, the village inhabitants become aware of a plan to build a glamping site near Takumi’s house offering city residents a comfortable “escape” to nature. When two company representatives from Tokyo arrive in the village to hold a meeting, it becomes clear that the project will have a negative impact on the local water supply, causing unrest. The agency’s mismatched intentions endanger both the ecological balance of the plateau and their way of life, with an aftermath that affects Takumi’s life deeply.
Director's Statement
In this film, I had a wonderful opportunity to work with Doraibu mai kā’s composer Eiko Ishibashi again. The film project began when she asked me to create some footage for her live performance Gift, and I conceived of the film as an “original source material” for the footage. As I became more and more connected to this film we were creating, Eiko and her friends helped me a lot in the shooting, too. This very free way of filmmaking vitalised me a lot. After the shoot, I felt that I had captured interactions of people in nature and completed the work as a single film with Eiko Ishibashi’s beautiful theme music. I hope the audience will feel the life force of the figures that are stirring in nature and music.
Production/Distribution
PRODUCTION: Satoshi Takata – NEOPA Inc.
706, PAAP 4-17 Sakuragaoka-cho, Shibuya-ku
150-0031 – Tokyo, Japan
Tel. +81 366703361
Mob. +81 7038714475
takata@neopa.jp
http://neopa.jp
WORLD SALES: Maren Kroymann - M-Appeal
Prinzessinnenstr., 16
10969 - Berlin, Germany
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ITALIAN DISTRIBUTION: Tucker Film
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