1. Home
  2. TOEI COMPANY, LTD.
  3. A BALANCE

A BALANCE

YUKO NO TENBIN

By Yujiro HARUMOTO

TOEI COMPANY, LTD. - as SALES All rights, World

Drama - Completed 2020

Documentary director Yuko is working on a piece about a bullied schoolgirl’s suicide when she discovers that her father Masashi, a cram school director, has made a grave error of judgment. She struggles to make things right, but only gets drawn in deeper...

Festivals
& Awards

Busan IFF 2020
New currents New Currents Award
International Festival & Awards・Macau 2020
Singapore International Film Festival 2020
Competition
Pingyao Internationnal Film Festival 2020
Crouching Tigers Robert Rossellini Awards Jury Award
Pingyao International Film Festival 2020
Crouching Tigers People's Choice Award
Berlinale - EFM 2021
Panorama
Login to view all information
    • Year of production
    • 2020
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • JAPAN
    • Languages
    • JAPANESE
    • Budget
    • 0.3 - 0.6 M$
    • Duration
    • 152 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Yujiro HARUMOTO
    • Writer(s)
    • Yujiro HARUMOTO
    • Producer(s)
    • Yujiro HARUMOTO, Tetsuya MATSUSHIMA, Sunao KATABUCHI
    • Synopsis
    • Documentary director Yuko is putting together a piece about bereaved families connected to a bullied schoolgirl’s suicide that happened three years earlier.
      Her high school denied that she was bullied, and appears to have fabricated a lascivious affair between the girl and her teacher to shift the blame, which led her to take her own life. This caused a public outcry, generating a barrage of criticism leveled not only at the school, but also the girl’s teacher. This eventually drove him to protest his innocence in the most extreme way possible: by committing suicide himself.
      Yuko’s unshakable determination to shed light on the truth without compromising brings her into conflict with conservatively-minded management at her documentary’s television network, but succeeds in getting her interview subjects to emerge from their shells, and place their trust in her.
      Then one day, Yuko discovers that her father Masashi, who runs a cram school where she also works part-time, has impregnated a young student named Mei.
      Both Masashi and Mei fear the backlash that would come if word of their predicament were to get out, so they seek Yuko’s help.
      To protect the families of the bullied girl and the teacher in her documentary from public persecution, Yuko goes against her principles and struggles with her conscience as she finds herself telling lie after lie. However, her father’s transgression gives her a new perspective as the close relative of a “victimizer,” which adds depth to her documentary and ironically wins the praise of her producer and the network.
      Yuko privately arranges for Mei to have an abortion, and everything seems to progressing toward a positive resolution, until...
      Unforeseen developments occur one after another, throwing Yuko’s perception of truth and untruth off balance, and forcing her to make life-altering decisions.
Top
Contact us
© Cinando(2024).com
All rights reserved. 3.0.0.0 - SOIF