Tadanobu Asano, Yukino Kishii Starrer ‘All the Lovers in the Night’ Boarded by Bitters End for International Sales Ahead of Berlin EFM (Exclusive)

Japanese sales and distribution company Bitters End has acquired international rights to “All the Lovers in the Night,” Yukiko Sode’s feature adaptation of Mieko Kawakami’s celebrated novel starring Golden Globe winner Tadanobu Asano (“Shōgun”) in a key supporting role.

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,…