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KAMATAKI

By Claude GAGNON

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Drama - Completed 2005

Surviving a suicide attempt, a young Montreal man is sent to Japan to live with his uncle Takuma, a renowned potter. Takuma's shock treatment of sake, mystery, sexual tension, art and hard work makes the sparks fly. Will this be enough to rekindle the young man's inner flame?

- Year of production
- 2005
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Countries
- CANADA
- Languages
- ENGLISH, FRENCH
- Duration
- 110 mn
- Director(s)
- Claude GAGNON
- Writer(s)
- Claude GAGNON
- Cast
- Matt SMILEY, Kazuko YOSHIYUKI, Tatsuya FUJI, Lisle WILKERSON, Naho WATANABE, Christopher HEYERDAHL
- Producer(s)
- Yuri YOSHIMURA-GAGNON (Zuno Films), Samuel GAGNON (Zuno Films), Nobuo ISOBE (NHK), Claude GAGNON (Zuno Films)
- Synopsis
- On a chilly winter morning, having lost his will to live, 22 year-old Ken (Matt Smiley) decides to jump off a Montreal bridge, only to be miraculously saved. His mother, not knowing what else to do for her son, sends Ken to live in Japan with a man he has never met, his potter uncle. While at first completely disinterested in anything around him, Ken begins to find beauty in places he never thought to look and slowly regains his desire to live thanks to his extravagant uncle who pushes him into things he would have never imagined doing.