SKIP CITY Alumni Reunion
The Asadas ◊ none◊
- Onsite
- 7.21 (Fri) 17:30 Convention Hall
With his photobook “The Asadas”, in which he and his family cosplay, Masashi Asada grabs the spotlight, thus becoming a professional photographer. But as he searches for the true meaning of photography, he somehow can’t take pictures. Then the Great East Japan Earthquake strikes.
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Director: Ryota NAKANO
Cast: Kazunari NINOMIYA, Satoshi TSUMABUKI, Haru KUROKI, Masaki SUDA, Jun FUBUKI, Mitsuru HIRATA
Distributor: Toho
2020 / Japan / 127min.
Photographer Masashi Asada took unique photographs of his family of four — father, mother, brother and himself — who did various cosplay under the themes “what they wanted to be” and “what they want to do together”. His photobook, “The Asadas”, contains family portraits in which they threw themselves into the roles of firefighters, yakuza and so on; the book received the 34th Kimura Ihei Award, a prestigious photography award in Japan. The film The Asadas is inspired by that book, and “Album no chikara”, about the over-two-year experience when he was a volunteer, cleaning photos covered with mud from the Great East Japan Earthquake tsunami, returning the cleaned photos to the owners. The screenplay and its unique viewpoint is the work of director Ryota Nakano, whose Her Love Boils Bathwater (16) swept film awards that year, including the 41st Hochi Film Awards Best Picture, and won the nominations for the 40th Japan Academy Film Prize Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay.
Director: Ryota NAKANO
Born in 1973 and raised in Kyoto. After graduating from university, Nakano enrolled in the Japan Institute of the Moving Image, where he immersed himself in filmmaking for three years. His independent feature production, Capturing Dad, won the Best Director Award at the festival in 2012, was selected for the Berlin International Film Festival and won 14 awards in Japan and abroad. In 2016, his commercial debut film, Her Love Boils Bathwater, received six awards at Japan Academy Film Prize including Best Actress in a Leading Role and Best Actress in a Supporting Role, received 35 awards in total in Japan, and was selected as Japan’s representative for the Academy Award Foreign Language Film. In 2019, he directed his first novel-based film, A Long Goodbye, which became a long-running hit. In 2020, The Asadas received eight awards at Japan Academy Film Prizes including Best Actress in a Supporting Role, and became a hit in France, marking over 250,000 attendance. He depicts families with a unique sense and perspective.
