INFORMATION
Director: Nobuteru Uchida
Year: 2021
Duration: 97’
Language: VOSE | VOSC
Genre: Drama
SYNOPSIS
Despite graduating from a university in Tokyo, Misaki has not been able to find the job she was hoping for due to the lack of job opportunities her generation suffered. Almost everything has gone wrong for her and now she is about to turn 40. However, she dreams of marrying Naoki, the social worker of her elderly and disabled mother, Mitsuko, who visits her home. His clandestine meetings with Naoki are one of Misaki’s oases from Mitsuko’s daily harsh verbal abuse. The other is the bee farm run by her childhood friend, Kaori. The honey that Kaori diligently makes is sweet, smooth and soothing. But suddenly, a series of events will bring Misaki’s heart to the brink of bursting. The pandemic period has extended the separation between people, but what about their hearts?
DIRECTOR’S BIOGRAPHY
Nobuteru Uchida is a director and writer, known for Fuyu no kemono (2010), Bokura no bômei (2017) and Onna-tachi (2021). He was born in 1972 in Saitama prefecture. His documentary Pictorial Letters won the 2003 PFF Special Jury Prize and Special Mention at the Hong Kong International Film Festival. His first feature film, Kazaana, won the 2008 PFF Special Jury Prize and was selected for the competition section of the Vancouver International Film Festival. Love Addiction, from 2010, received the Grand Prize at TOKYO FIILMeX, competed at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and screened at the Hong Kong and San Sebastian Film Festivals, as well as many other international festivals. In 2012, he wrote, directed and edited Odayaka, which had its world premiere at the Busan International Film Festival, and subsequently screened at TOKYO FILMeX, Rotterdam, Thessaloniki and other film festivals around the world. It was released theatrically in Taiwan in 2013. This and his fourth feature film Love Bombs were released back-to-back in Japan in 2012 and 2013 respectively. He also wrote, directed and edited 2016’s Our Escape, which was nominated to compete at the 17th TOKYO FILMeX and the 7th Sakhalin International Film Festival.
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180º Rule

18Khz

1990

A Balance

A Leave (휴가)

A Love Unknown

A New Day

A’HR

Abhijan (THE EXPEDITION)

Along the Sea

Anima

APARAJITO (THE INVINCIBLE)

Apur sansar (the world of apu)

Aranyer din ratri (Days and nights in the forest)

Around The Table

Bandar Band

Bedridden

Better Days (少年的你)

Bipolar

Borderlands

Bridge

Café By the Highway

Camino Skies

Can Neither Stay Here, Nor Journey Beyond

Captive (Nazarband)

Cartas de Akyab

Charulata (Charulata or the lonely wife)

Children of the Night

Cinema Shahre Gheseh

COLD

Come Here

Crossroads (Tapguan)

Debris of Desire

Devi (The goddess)

Don’t Go Too Far (멀리가지마라)

Drifting (濁水漂流)

Drive My Car

Drown (Shena-ye Parvaneh)

Drowning In Holy Water

El Barro de la Revolución

Ellie & Abbie (& Ellie’s Dead Aunt)

Eternally Younger Than Those Idiots

Far Frontiers

Faraway My Shadow Wandered

Fire on the Plain

Friends and Strangers

Ganashatru (An enemy of the people)

Ghare-Baire (Bimala’s world)

God on the Balcony

GOOPY GYNE BAGHA BYNE (GOOPY AND BAGHA’S ADVENTURES)

H is For Happiness

Hail, Driver

Hand Rolled Cigarette (手捲煙)

I am Vasantrao

I Don’t Fire Myself (나는 나를 해고하지 않는다)

I Met A Girl

In the Wake

Jalsaghar (The music room)

Jeux de Plage

Josée (조제)

Just 1 Day (給我1天)

Keep Rolling (好好拍電影)

Lato Kosero

Life in 24 Frames

Lockdown

Los mensajes ocultos de Ganga

Love, Life and Goldfish

Mahanagar (One Night in Kathmandu)

Mahanagar (The Big City)

Malu

My Childhood, My Country: 20 Years in Afghanistan

Nayak (The Hero)

Not Today

On Your Mom, Get, Set, Go! / Zero to Hero (媽媽的神奇小子)

One More Rainbow (Isa Pang Bahagari)

One Second Champion (秒拳王)

Our Midnight (아워 미드나잇)

Paranoia

Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road)

Pratidwandi (The Adversary)

Ready O/R Knot (不日成婚)

Restart

Rosemary’s Way

Running to the Sky

Sehar

Shakha Proshakha (Branches of the tree)

Shatranj Ke Khilari (The chess players)

Son of the Macho Dancer (Anak ng macho dancer)

Stars Await Us

Stoma (造口人)

Streamline

The Australian Dream

The Badger

The Blue Girl (Dokhtar-e Abi)

The Dogs Didn’t Sleep Last Night (Sag-ha Dishab Na-khabidand)

The Flute

The Forbidden Strings

The Fourth Round (Rand-e Chaharom)

The Great Indian Kitchen

The Inheritance (Mord-e Khor)

The Lake

The Reversed Path (Masir-e Makus)

The Road to Eden

The Single Tumbler

The Slaughterhouse (Koshtargah)

The Woman

The Women

The Year of the Everlasting Storm

Time (殺出個黃昏)

Ulbolsyn

Unboxing Girl (평평남녀)

Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash

Walnut Tree

Water Boy

What We Left Unfinished

Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Gūzen to Sōzo)

Where is Pinki?

Wind

Wu Hai

Yellow Cat
