Following the Sound

Kyoshi Sugita / Japan

Screening

FILMIN

2nd NOV - 3rd DEC

Film Information

Year: 2023

Duration: 84'

Language: VOSE

Genre: Drama

Synopsis

One day, Haru, who works as a bookstore clerk, reunites with Takeshi, whom she first met a few years prior, when she stopped him from jumping in front of a train. Takeshi offers Haru a job. Another day, Haru is worried about Yukiko who is sitting on a bench in front of the station, and talks to her. This leads them on a small journey together. Haru takes along a cassette recorder left behind as an inheritance by her mother. The circumstances will lead Haru to confront guilt and regretful feelings once again for not having been able to help avoid the illness to give an end to her mom’s life.

Director

This japanese director born in 1977, had his first feature film One Song selected for the Tokyo International Film Festival in 2011 and its theatrical debut in 2012. His second feature film, Song of Light, was selected for the 2017 Tokyo International Film Festival and the 2018 Jeonju International Film Festival. The film received high praise in major newspapers and the film magazine Kinema Junpo. He has also published the novels Kawa no Koibito/River Lovers and Hitotsu no Uta/One Song and participated as a photographer in the fourth poetry collection Uta Long Long Short Song Long by the poet Koichi Masuno.