Japan Academy Prize winner Yukino Kishii leads the cast in the project, which marks the first full-length film adaptation of a work by Kawakami. The author’s novel gained international recognition as the first Japanese title shortlisted for the U.S. National Book Critics Circle Award.
The literary sensation tells a love story centered on Fuyuko, a freelance proofreader living in solitude whose carefully ordered life begins to transform after meeting Mitsutsuka, a quiet high school physics teacher.
The film is currently in post-production with a Japanese theatrical release scheduled for later this year.
Sode’s sophomore feature “Aristocrats” (2021) bowed at the International Film Festival Rotterdam before achieving substantial commercial success in France,…
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