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MAGIC KIMONO

AĢISKAIS KIMONO / 映画『ふたりの旅路』

By Maris MARTINSONS

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Romance - Completed 2017

A fantastical story about a second chance in love and life. The first ever feature film co-production between Japan and the Baltics, shot with the full cooperation of sister cities Kobe, Japan and Riga, Latvia.

- Year of production
- 2017
- Genres
- Romance, Fantasy, Drama
- Countries
- LATVIA, JAPAN
- Languages
- LATVIAN, JAPANESE
- Budget
- 1 - 3 M$
- Duration
- 96 mn
- Director(s)
- Maris MARTINSONS
- Writer(s)
- Māris MARTINSONS
- Cast
- Issey OGATA, Momoi KAORI
- Producer(s)
- Linda KRUKLE (KRUKFILMS), Eiko MIZUNO-GRAY (LOADED FILMS), Jason GRAY (LOADED FILMS)
- Synopsis
- Sixty-something Keiko (Kaori Momoi) has been living in a shell since losing her daughter, and then her husband, decades ago. Unable to move on from the past, the modest act of eating, and the sensations it provides, are the only lifeline Keiko has. She reluctantly joins a group of Japanese women traveling to Northern Europe to participate in a kimono show in the fairytale-like art nouveau world of Riga. During the show, Keiko is suddenly confronted by a man who seems to be her long lost husband (Issey Ogata), who went missing in the Kobe earthquake of 1995. Gripped by confusion and despair, Keiko walks through the city and has chance meetings with people who seem drawn to this curious, kimono-clad woman and her culinary sensibility. Food bridges the language and culture gap, and with her husband at her side once again, Keiko gradually realizes how to have a future with the past.