LABYRINTH OF CINEMA

海辺の映画館 キネマの玉手箱

By Nobuhiko OBAYASHI

CRESCENDO HOUSE - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD

Comedy - Completed 2019

A movie can change the world! Director Nobuhiko Ôbayashi leaves a message for the new generation. Not just a message—an energetic and powerful entertainment experience, the like of which you’ve never experienced before!

Festivals
& Awards

Tokyo International Film Festival 2019
Special Achievement Award
Kinema Junpo 2020
Best Director
Fantasia FF 2020
Special Jury Mention
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Comedy, Historical, Drama
    • Countries
    • JAPAN
    • Languages
    • JAPANESE
    • Duration
    • 179 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Nobuhiko OBAYASHI
    • Writer(s)
    • Nobuhiko OBAYASHI, Tadashi NAITO, Kazuya KONAKA
    • Synopsis
    • Setouchi Kinema, the only movie theater on the Onomichi seafront, is about to close its doors. Its last night of existence will be an all-night marathon screening of Japanese war films. When lightning strikes the theater, three young men in the audience find themselves thrown back in time into the world inside the screen. The trio are thrust into the Boshin War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Battle of Okinawa and then finally Hiroshima on the eve of the atomic bombing. There, they meet the traveling theater troupe “Sakura-tai”. But can they alter the course of destiny to save the troupe?