A wooded setting, two characters, and conflicting values are the basis for Manami Ikemoto's clever short film “Hunting Results.” Ikemoto primarily works as an editor and creates films that detail the behind-the-scenes process in filmmaking. Here, he shines as a director in his first major project since his graduation movie, “Bad Trip.” With a low budget and two actors, he explores ideas of evolving perspectives and people who stand by old-fashioned notions.
Hunting Results is screening at Skip City International D-Cinema Festival
In the story, a married couple is out on a hunting trip. The husband, Naotaro, is overbearing and excessively stands by patriarchal values, while the wife, Yuko, is laid back and open-minded. Naotaro is deeply bothered that his daughter, Misako, is gay and takes out his frustrations on his spouse. Yet, Yuko stands up for herself, and the couple's complicated marriage and beliefs are explored in their journey into the woods.
Hunting Results is screening at Skip City International D-Cinema Festival
In the story, a married couple is out on a hunting trip. The husband, Naotaro, is overbearing and excessively stands by patriarchal values, while the wife, Yuko, is laid back and open-minded. Naotaro is deeply bothered that his daughter, Misako, is gay and takes out his frustrations on his spouse. Yet, Yuko stands up for herself, and the couple's complicated marriage and beliefs are explored in their journey into the woods.
- 7/21/2023
- by Sean Barry
- AsianMoviePulse
Love shines like a light in the dark as a romance blossoms between a photographer losing his vision and a translator of films for the visually impaired in Naomi Kawase’s Radiance. Misako (Misaki Ayame) is a writer of audio descriptions of films for the visually impaired. At a screening, she meets Nakamori (Nagase Masatoshi), an older photographer who is slowly losing his eyesight following an illness. Misako soon discovers Nakamori’s photographs, which will strangely bring her back to her past. Though hesitant to start a relationship, feelings soon arise between a man who has lost the light and a woman who pursues it.
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- 6/11/2023
- by Slant Staff
- Slant Magazine
Sometimes, when two people with very different experiences meet, it is not enough simply to arrive at the same place in space and time; each must still undertake a journey to find the other.
Misako (Ayame Misaki) makes her living by providing various forms of assistance to blind and visually impaired people. She’s trying to break into the art of audio description for films, but it’s difficult. Whilst other blind people try to be polite, photographer Masaya Nakamori (Masatoshi Nagase) gives it to her straight: he doesn’t think that she’s cut out for it. She’s too poetic. Her subjective emotions get in the way of allowing blind audience members to use their imaginations, whilst she makes so many observations that there’s no opportunity left for quiet contemplation.
Nakamori badly needs that kind of space. He’s struggling to come to terms with the gradual loss of his sight,...
Misako (Ayame Misaki) makes her living by providing various forms of assistance to blind and visually impaired people. She’s trying to break into the art of audio description for films, but it’s difficult. Whilst other blind people try to be polite, photographer Masaya Nakamori (Masatoshi Nagase) gives it to her straight: he doesn’t think that she’s cut out for it. She’s too poetic. Her subjective emotions get in the way of allowing blind audience members to use their imaginations, whilst she makes so many observations that there’s no opportunity left for quiet contemplation.
Nakamori badly needs that kind of space. He’s struggling to come to terms with the gradual loss of his sight,...
- 4/27/2023
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
On the heels of Naomi Kawase’s 2014 feature Still the Water getting distribution in North America from Film Movement, the distributor has now announced the Japanese director’s 2017 drama Radiance will get a release at the end of this month. Following a world premiere in competition at Cannes where it received the Ecumenical Jury Prize, we’re pleased to exclusively premiere the new U.S. trailer ahead of its April 28 debut.
Here’s the synopsis: “Misako (Ayame Misaki) is a writer of audio descriptions of films for the visually impaired. At a screening, she meets Nakamori (Masatoshi Nagase), an older photographer who is slowly losing his eyesight following an illness. Misako soon discovers Nakamori’s photographs, which will strangely bring her back to her past. Though hesitant to start a relationship, feelings soon arise between a man who has lost the light and a woman who pursues it.”
Kawase, whose...
Here’s the synopsis: “Misako (Ayame Misaki) is a writer of audio descriptions of films for the visually impaired. At a screening, she meets Nakamori (Masatoshi Nagase), an older photographer who is slowly losing his eyesight following an illness. Misako soon discovers Nakamori’s photographs, which will strangely bring her back to her past. Though hesitant to start a relationship, feelings soon arise between a man who has lost the light and a woman who pursues it.”
Kawase, whose...
- 4/6/2023
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
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