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LET ME HEAR IT BAREFOOT

HADASHI DE NARASHITE MISERO

By Riho KUDO

PFF - PIA FILM FESTIVAL - as SALES All rights

Second film - Completed 2021

Two young men form an inscrutable emotional bond as they simulate a world tour through audio recordings.

- Year of production
- 2021
- Genres
- Second film, LGBT, Female director
- Countries
- JAPAN
- Languages
- JAPANESE
- Duration
- 127 mn
- Director(s)
- Riho KUDO
- Writer(s)
- Riho KUDO
- Cast
- Shion SASAKI, Shuri SUWA, Kaho ITO, Jun FUBUKI, Masahiro KOMOTO
- Producer(s)
- Mayumi AMANO (Elice Company)
- Synopsis
- Naomi works for his father’s disposal business, picking up people’s junk day in and day out. He keeps some choice finds for himself in a private garage, where he wishes for a better life away from home. One day, he runs into a young man named Maki at the local swimming pool. Maki lives with his blind adoptive mother, Midori. After being hospitalized, Midori entrusts her dream of traveling the world to Maki, but the savings she gifts him aren’t enough. Instead, Maki and Naomi utilize an old cassette recorder to ‘visit’ famous natural wonders of the world, recreating them sonically. Like an amateur foley team, they employ makeshift items and locations to simulate Italy’s Blue Grotto, Arizona’s Antelope Canyon, and South America’s Iguazu Falls (famously featured in Wong Kar-wai’s ″Happy Together″). Naomi begins spending more time away from his disappointed girlfriend and father to be with Maki. As their bond deepens, the pair’s playful roughhousing escalates into more serious physical battles of will until their relationship reaches a breaking point.