Robo-G
- Wednesday, May 28, 5:30 Mousonturm Saal
- ロボジー
- Japan 2012, Blu-ray, 111 min, Japanese with English subtitles
- Director & Script: Shinobu YAGUCHI
- Production: Fuji Television, Toho, Dentsu, Altamira Pictures
- Camera: Katsumi YANAGISHIMA
- World Sales: Pony Canyon Inc.
- Actors: Shinjiro IGARASHI, Yuriko YOSHITAKA, Gaku HAMADA, Shogo KAWAI, Junya KAWASHIMA
- German premiere
It is not the easiest job for designers of washing machines to create a robot. But when they seem to fail, creativity comes in. In Shinobu YAGUCHI's ROBO-G, Japanese exaggeration meets colorful understatement, wits, and a whole crew of charming and very human characters.
Director biography
Born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1967, Shinobu YAGUCHI began shooting films on 8mm as a student at Tokyo Zokei University. In 1990, his 8 mm film THE RAIN WOMEN won the Grand Prize of the renowned Pia Film Festival. A PFF Scholarship enabled him to shoot his feature debut DOWN THE DRAIN (1993). Numerous successful works followed.
Filmography
1993 Down the Drain (Hadashi no picknick); 1997 My Secret Place (Himitsu no hanazono); 1999 Adrenaline Drive (NC ‘03); 2001 Waterboys (NC ‘05); 2002 Parco Fiction (NC ‘03); 2004 Swing Girls (NC ‘07); 2008 Happy Flight; 2014 Wood Job (Wood Job! Kamusari nana nichijo)
Kindly supported by YASKAWA Europe GmbH.
