Director: Masahiro Kobayashi
Script: Masahiro Kobayashi
Cinematographer: N. Kita
Editor: N. Kaneko
Music: inspired by Camille Saint-Saëns (Carnival of the animals), arrangements by T. Ichihara, Junpei Sakuma
Cast: Ken Ogata, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yasufumi Hayashi, Nene Ohtsuka, Fusako Urabe
Production: Monkey Town Productions
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Year: 2001
35 mm, Colour, 103 min
OV Japanese with French Subtitles
Unreleased
Official Selection Un Certain Regard - Cannes 2001
In Mashike, a town from the Hokkaido Island, Nobuo is a sake producer. He lives with Yasuo, his younger son, who looks after the family business, tyrannised by his father. Ever since his wife died two years ago, Nobuo’s life has been punctuated by long walks in the snowy countryside, up to a fish farm. He daily observers how the young fish grow in this industrial stock. Soon, it will be the second anniversary of his wife’s death and he insists that Ryochi, his elder son, should attend the ceremony. Yasuo , who has just been ditched by his girl-friend, meets him and the two brothers start quarrelling. Ryochi and his pregnant companion have come on the day of commemoration. They have decided to replace Yasuo at the side of their father and therefore settle in Mashike. In this oppressive atmosphere, a lot of what was left unsaid, suddenly reappears.
