Japanese Film Competition (Short Length)
Don’t Go ◊ wp◊
- Onsite
- 7.17 (Mon) 13:50 Convention Hall
- 7.21 (Fri) 10:30 Audio Visual Hall
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- 7.22 (Sat) 10:00 - 7.26 (Wed) 23:00
Set in a world in which, through a special device, people can see the memories of the dead. A family decides to enter the memory of their father, who has been killed in a car accident in a seaside town, to learn why he had to hide his destination from his family.
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Director: Daichi AMANO
Cast: Seiichiro KANADA, Riku TANAKA, Yui NAGATA, Kaori TAKESHITA, Wataru MURAKAMI, Michiyo YOKOYAMA
2023 / Japan / 25min.
Bereavement is inevitable for everyone. Don’t Go tackles this eternal human theme with the science fiction premise that one can enter the memory of a dead person. A sophisticated sensibility can be seen in, for example, a casual conversation between the humorous father and his family who can’t really accept his sudden death, which contributes an unsentimental lightness and comfort to the film. The director is Daichi Amano, who studied film at the California Institute of the Arts. His My God Never Dies (19) was screened at the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival in Czechia, and Pain of the Anonymous (21) was selected for the 39th Busan International Short Film Festival and the 40th CAAM Film Festival, and won the Best National Short and the Japan Premiere Award at the 17th Sapporo International Short Film Festival & Market. Yasuyuki Dodo, producer of the 2021 SKIP CITY AWARD winner Psychology Counselor (21), serves as the producer. The film will have its world premiere at the festival.
Director: Daichi AMANO
Born 1988 in Tokyo. Graduated from the California Institute of the Arts. My God Never Dies (19) was screened at the Ji.hlava IDFF in Czechia. Pain of the Anonymous (21), Grand-prix winner of the 5th MOON CINEMA PROJECT, was selected for the 39th Busan International Short Film Festival and the 40th CAAM Film Festival, and won the Best National Short and the Japan Premiere Award at the 17th Sapporo International Short Film Festival & Market.
Message
As I get older, I gradually become more and more realistically aware that the death of a loved one will one day come. Naturally, the story is about death, but I didn’t want to make it sentimental. The concepts I had in mind were science fiction, the family, and road movies. I tried to depict the universal motifs of death and memory in a uncommon combination of genres, which I hope provides a sense of surprise.
