And the Mud Ship Sails Away
- Saturday, May 31, 8:15 p.m. Naxoshalle Kino
- Soshite dorobune wa yuku
そして泥船はゆく - Japan 2013, Blu-Ray, 88 Min., OmeU
- Director, script & world sales: Hirobumi WATANABE
- Production: Foolish Piggies Films
- Camera: Woo-hyun BANG
- Music: Yuji WATANABE
- Actors: Kiyohiko SHIBUKAWA, Ayasa TAKAHASHI, Kaoru IIDA, Mina TAKEDA, Hitoshi SUZUKI
- German premiere in the presence of the director
- Nippon Visions Jury Award and Nippon Visions Audience Award
- Supporting film: WORLD ORDER: Last Dance von Genki SUDO, Japan 2013
Takashi, 36 years old and unemployed, is completely aimless. He lives with his grandmother, repeating the same routine - game center, bowling center, watching TV - day after day. This suddenly changes when Yuka shows up, claiming to be his half-sister. Confronted with a new situation, Takashi finally makes a decision. Whether it is a good one, remains to be seen.
Director Bio
Born in Tochigi Prefecture in 1982, WATANABE graduated from the Japan Institute of the Moving Image and was a student of writer and director Daisuke Tengan. His graduation film HACHIGATSU NO KARUI BUTA won the Film Lovers' Festa Grand Prize. He later directed the Japanese-Chinese co-production MITTSU NO MINATO NO MONOGATARI. In 2013 he founded Foolish Piggies Films.
Filmography
2007 Hachigatsu no karui buta; 2009 Mittsu no minato no monogatari