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Capturing Dad
Jul.15(Sun) 14:00 Jul.18(Wed) 17:30
<2012/Japan/74min. >
©2012 ピクチャーズネットワーク/日吉ヶ丘ピクチャーズ
Sawa asks her two daughters, Hazuki and Koharu, to visit their dying father whom she divorced long time ago. She wants them to take a picture of his face on his death bed and brings it back. Two daughters depart to visit their father they hardly remember.
Director: Ryota Nakano
Cast: Makiko Watanabe, Erisa Yanagi, Nanoka Matsubara, Kenichi Takito, Satoshi Nikaido
Director/Ryota Nakano
Born 1973 in Kyoto, Nakano moved to Tokyo after graduating college, and studied filmmaking at Japan Institute for Moving Image for three years. Since then, he directed several short films which won many awards including The Sparking Amber, a short film shot in 35mm, produced in conjunction with NEW DIRECTIONS IN JAPANESE CINEMA, a filmmakers initiative sponsored by Agency for Cultural Affairs. His cinematic concern is <family> and his films depict it with distinctive sensibility.