Fuku-chan of Fukufuku Flats
- Tuesday, May 27, 7:30 p.m. Mousonturm Saal
- Thursday, May 29, 8:00 p.m. Mal Seh’n Kino
- Fuku-chan of Fukufuku Flats
福福荘の福ちゃん - Japan/UK/Italy/Taiwan/Germany 2014, HDcam, 110 min, Japanese with English subtitles
- Director & Script: Yosuke FUJITA
- Production: TV Man Union, Phantom Film, Klockworx, Third Window Films, Naniiro, Lighthouse Entertainment, Digital One, Inkwell
- Camera: Yoshihiro IKEUCHI
- Sales: Rapid Eye Movies
- Actors: Miyuki OSHIMA, Asami MIZUKAWA, Yoshiyoshi ARAKAWA, Kami HIRAIWA, Kanji FURUTACHI, Mei KUROKAWA
- German premiere in the presence of director Yosuke FUJITA and the producer Adam Torel
- Nippon Cinema Award
Fuku-chan is generous, light-hearted and a little chubby. When a woman from his past returns, his old fear of women is finally put to the test. Yosuke FUJITA’s comedy is just as pleasing, daring, bittersweet and absurd as his NIPPON CINEMA AWARD winning debut FINE, TOTALLY FINE.
Director biography
Yosuke FUJITA, born in 1963, already won the Grand Prize at the Turin Film Festival with his 8 mm film TORA in 1987. He worked for the comedy theater company Otona Keikaku. After creating a series of documentary and short films, he made his feature film debut with FINE, TOTALLY FINE (NC ‘08) that brought him the NIPPON CINEMA AWARD.
Filmography
2008 Fine, Totally Fine (Zenzen daijobu / NC ‘08) / Saba; 2009 Mimizu Hime