Japanese Film Competition (Feature Length)
Till the Day I Can Laugh about My Blues ◊ wp◊
- Onsite
- 7.17 (Mon) 17:30 Audio Visual Hall
- 7.21 (Fri) 14:20 Convention Hall
- Online
- 7.22 (Sat) 10:00 - 7.26 (Wed) 23:00
Anne, a junior high school student who doesn’t fit in at school, finds comfort in a dark off-limits staircase. One day, when she looks at the space through a magical kaleidoscope, a door opens and she meets Aina, a student with the same kaleidoscope.
©ブルーを笑えるその日まで
Director: Karin TAKEDA
Cast: Miyu WATANABE, Kokona SUMI, Shino NATSUME, Tomie KATAOKA, Rin MARUMOTO, Shizuku NARUMIYA, Hinata SATO
2023 / Japan / 100min.
A goldfish in a tank, taken care of only by the protagonist, dies, and only then do the students feel sorry for it. In this world, people will be kind to you only when you die. Anne, ignored by her classmates, attends classes on the verge of breakdown, but when she meets Aina, who feels the same way, she smiles again. The two quickly become close on the school rooftop, but there is a rumor the rooftop is haunted.... After the summer holiday, the number of teen suicides increases. A classroom like a small fish tank is the only world for those who bully and who are bullied, so they can’t even think about running away. But you can run away. There is someone out there who understands you. The fresh charm of the cast members, and the earnestness of director Karin Takeda, who made this film based on her own experience, fills the entire film and touches the viewers. Kiyoshiro Imawano’s song gently accompanies the characters’ pain. Till the Day I Can Laugh about My Blues will have its world premiere at the festival.
Director: Karin TAKEDA
25 years old. Graduated from Tokyo Polytechnic University, Department of Imaging Art in 2020. Takeda has been involved in many professional and amateur film productions since her student days. Her graduation project and first directorial film in 2020, Then I Add Colors to a Panda and a Zebra, was nominated and awarded at several film festivals. In 2022, she made Till the Day I Can Laugh about My Blues (23), based on her teenage experiences of truancy and attempted suicide.
Message
Blue in the title has many meanings. Depression. Blue sky. Adolescence. Memories of those teenage days. I put what I can’t and couldn’t convey in words in the film. That’s what I wanted to be told back then, and what I wanted to see. Because I believe this film can walk with someone who may be crying like I was in the past, till the day they can laugh at their blues.
