LABYRINTH OF CINEMA

UMIBE NO EIGAKAN - KINEMA NO TAMATEBAKO

By Nobuhiko OBAYASHI

BEIJING HUGOEAST MEDIA CO., LTD. - as BUYER REP

Drama - Completed 2019

Three youth jump into the screen in a theater which will be closed for good. Shot in his hometown Onomichi for the first time in 20 years, Nobuhiko Obayashi brings this fantasy film with a compelling message.

Festivals
& Awards

Tokyo - TiffCom 2019
Rotterdam IFFR 2020
Perspective
groningen 2020
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • JAPAN
    • Languages
    • JAPANESE
    • Budget
    • 1 - 3 M$
    • Duration
    • 179 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Nobuhiko OBAYASHI
    • Writer(s)
    • Nobuhiko OBAYASHI
    • Producer(s)
    • Kazuyoshi OKUYAMA, Hisao NABESHIMA
    • 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?