“Yanagawa,” which this week received the highest prize on the Vesoul Worldwide Movie Pageant of Asian Cinemas in France, has been set because the opening title of the seventeenth Osaka Asian Movie Pageant in Japan. The pageant, which runs as an in-person occasion, March 10-20, 2022 will shut with multinational co-production “Miss Osaka.”
Yanagawa, was directed by Korean-Chinese language auteur Zhang Lu, and was filmed in China and Japan. Telling a story of seek for East-Asian identification, the movie is Zhang’s first primarily Chinese language-language image within the eleven years since “Dooman River.”
It had its world premiere screening at Busan and was subsequently the opening movie for the Pingyao Worldwide Movie Pageant. It’s anticipated to obtain a Japanese theatrical launch later this yr, although a date has not but been finalized.
A novel Danish-Norwegian-Japanese co-production, directed by Daniel Dencik, “Miss Osaka” is a drama with thriller and thriller components that emerge in a narrative the place a younger lady looking for an identification adopts one from another person. It was shot on location within the forests of Norway and the neon-lit streets of Osaka.
It options a world forged that’s led by rising European stars Victoria Carmen Sonne and Mikkel Boe Folsgaard, Japan’s Moriyama Mirai, Abe Junko and Minami Kaho. The movie is co-produced by “Drive My Automobile” and “Spouse of a Spy” producer Yamamoto Teruhisa alongside Denmark’s Michael Haslund-Christensen.
The pageant will unveil its full lineup later this month and also will reveal particulars of an internet program element that runs March 3 – 21.
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