SKIP CITY Alumni Reunion
She is Me, I am Her ◊ none◊
- Onsite
- 7.21 (Fri) 11:00 Convention Hall
A housewife in her 40s who rethinks her life. A single woman in her 30s who is lonely working remotely; a sex worker in her 20s who dreamed of being an actress; a woman in her 40s who has lost her vision and is clinging to the past. Nahana plays these four women struggling through the pandemic.
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Director: Mayu NAKAMURA
Cast: Nahana, Fusako URABE, Kota KUSANO, Masao YOSHII, Miyoko ASADA, Yu UEMURA
Distributor: T-Artist
2022 / Japan / 69min.
Mayu Nakamura’s 2020 short film Among Four of Us received the JAPAN CUTS Award Special Mention at the Osaka Asian Film Festival and attracted attention at domestic and international film festivals, including JAPAN CUTS in New York. That success led to this four-part omnibus, She is Me, I am Her. The cast includes Nahana, who consecutively starred in Sayaka Kai’s Red Snow (19), Ryuichi Hiroki’s You've Got A Friend (21) and other topical films; celebrated actors such as Miyoko Asada, Fusako Urabe, Kota Kusano, Masao Yoshii, Yu Uemura play valuable supporting roles. Nakamura made her directorial debut with The Summer of Stickleback, which was selected for the 2006 Feature Length Competition, and since then, she has created audacious films beyond the borders between drama and documentary, and has been acclaimed at film festivals in Japan and abroad. Her previous psycho-thriller Intimate Stranger (21) depicted the strange relationship during the COVID-19 pandemic between a lonely single mother and a young man who commits fraud.
Director: Mayu NAKAMURA
Nakamura moved to and studied in London at 16. After graduating from the University of London, she moved to New York City. After attending Columbia University graduate school, she studied film at New York University’s graduate school. She made her directorial debut with Kengo Kora’s first film, The Summer of Stickleback (06), which was selected for the Busan International Film Festival. She directed the documentary film Lonely Swallows–Living as the Children of Migrant Workers about Japanese-Brazilian teenagers in Hamamatsu in 2011, and in 2014 the documentary Alone in Fukushima about a man who remains alone with animals in the 20 km exclusion zone around the nuclear power plant in Fukushima. The film was selected for the Montreal World Film Festival and released in cinemas nationwide. The sequel, Alone Again in Fukushima 2020 (20) was screened at the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival’s Cinema with Us 2021 section. The documentary film Watch Out for the Patriot! – Kunio Suzuki (19) marked an unprecedented two-week consecutive full house record at Polepole Higashi-Nakano in February 2020. Intimate Stranger (21) was officially selected for the 34th Tokyo International Film Festival Nippon Cinema Now section and released at Shibuya Eurospace and other cinemas throughout Japan.
