Failed romances and failed dreams are put under the microscope in director Atsuro Shimoyashiro’s film “The Modern Lovers”, which will be screening in the Indie Forum section of the upcoming Osaka Asian Film Festival.
“The Modern Lovers” is screening at Osaka Asian Film Festival
Tatsuo is an average office worker who seems happy in a content life in the Japanese countryside. He has a steady job and a wife who is pregnant. Yet one day, when he receives a text message from his past lover Marina, with whom he was going steady during his university days, and she asks him to go meet her, Tatsuo takes a trip to Tokyo to meet a college friend he used to make indie movies with in his college days as well as Marina. Hiding the fact from her that he is now married and an expectant father, the two escape to a...
“The Modern Lovers” is screening at Osaka Asian Film Festival
Tatsuo is an average office worker who seems happy in a content life in the Japanese countryside. He has a steady job and a wife who is pregnant. Yet one day, when he receives a text message from his past lover Marina, with whom he was going steady during his university days, and she asks him to go meet her, Tatsuo takes a trip to Tokyo to meet a college friend he used to make indie movies with in his college days as well as Marina. Hiding the fact from her that he is now married and an expectant father, the two escape to a...
- 3/10/2020
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
Exclusive: Third Window Films has picked up Japanese porn comedy Make Room for UK distribution and international sales excluding Asia.
The company is also handling the film for festivals worldwide following its Grand Prix win at Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival last month
CEO Adam Torel quickly sealed a deal for the Japanese comedy with Joint Entertainment for Taiwan, and has agreed with Ryohei Masuoka, director of Japan’s Geta Films/Spirits Project, for them to handle other Asian territories.
“It’s a funny and touching film set in the make-up room of a porn set and based on director Kei Morikawa’s experiences in the adult film industry,” said Torel.
“Starring a host of real-life porn stars alongside professional and amateur actors, it was really the stand-out film of Yubari and rightly deserved to pick up the Grand Prix.”
Speaking of splitting the international sales with Masuoka, he said: “Actually, we are both...
The company is also handling the film for festivals worldwide following its Grand Prix win at Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival last month
CEO Adam Torel quickly sealed a deal for the Japanese comedy with Joint Entertainment for Taiwan, and has agreed with Ryohei Masuoka, director of Japan’s Geta Films/Spirits Project, for them to handle other Asian territories.
“It’s a funny and touching film set in the make-up room of a porn set and based on director Kei Morikawa’s experiences in the adult film industry,” said Torel.
“Starring a host of real-life porn stars alongside professional and amateur actors, it was really the stand-out film of Yubari and rightly deserved to pick up the Grand Prix.”
Speaking of splitting the international sales with Masuoka, he said: “Actually, we are both...
- 3/23/2015
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
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