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IT’S A FLICKERING LIFE

KINEMA NO KAMISAMA

By Yoji YAMADA

SHOCHIKU CO., LTD - as SALES All rights, World / DISTR

Drama - Completed 2021

A moving story of love and tears, in which the god of cinema transcends time to work a miracle in the life of a deadbeat dad whose family have given up on him.

- Year of production
- 2021
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- JAPAN
- Languages
- JAPANESE
- Duration
- 125 mn
- Director(s)
- Yoji YAMADA
- Cast
- Masaki SUDA, Kenji SAWADA, Mei NAGANO, Nobuko MIYAMOTO
- Synopsis
- One of the Japanese film world’s foremost figures, Yoji Yamada, returns to the screen with his latest masterwork, based on the novel “Kinema no Kamisama” by popular multiple prize-winning novelist Maha Harada. This deeply personal work of literature, inspired by Harada’s own family and experiences, is being adapted by Yamada into a sublime work of cinema, focusing on a theme that has become synonymous with long-established film studio Shochiku through the ages: family.
  Go (Kenji Sawada) is a passionate gambler but a deadbeat dad, and his wife Yoshiko (Nobuko Miyamoto) and family have given up on him. Nevertheless, there’s one thing that Go has always been wholeheartedly devoted to: movies. He and Terashin, the owner of a repertory cinema he frequents, are old friends from their days working at a film studio.
  In their youth, Go (Masaki Suda) and his colleagues spent every waking moment chasing their dreams, surrounded by great directors and famous stars who represented Japan’s golden age of motion pictures. However, when Go and Terashin both fell in love with a young woman (Mei Nagano) whose family ran a diner, the wheels of fate started to wobble...
  In this tale of love and friendship spanning a lifetime, the “god of cinema” that Go has worshipped since he was young will transcend time, and work a miracle in the lives of one family...