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SINGLE8

By Kazuya KONAKA

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Drama - Completed 2023

The autobiographical coming-of-age film by director Kazuya Konaka captures the magic of amateur independent filmmaking, showcasing the journey from script to screen during the summer of creativity and friendship.

Festivals
& Awards

Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre Film Festival 2022
Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival 2023
Nippon Connection 2023
Japan Cuts 2023
Boston SCI-FI Film Festival 2023
Sci-Fi Horror Film Festival 2023
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    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • JAPAN
    • Languages
    • JAPANESE
    • Duration
    • 113 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Kazuya KONAKA
    • Writer(s)
    • Kazuya KONAKA
    • Producer(s)
    • Yukihiko YAMAGUCHI (King Record), Akiko KONAKA (Bear Brothers), Kenji SEKI (Frebari)
    • Synopsis
    • In the Summer of 1978, Hiroshi, a high school student, is so inspired by “Star Wars” that he wants to film a giant spaceship himself, so he builds a miniature spaceship with his best friend, Yoshio, and shoots it with his 8mm film camera (Fujica Single 8). Terao, a clerk at a camera store, suggests that he should turn it into a narrative, so he decides to make a short film to be screened at the upcoming school festival, and asks his film fanatic friend, Sasaki, to help him develop a script. As he learns that his film camera has the ability to film backwards, he comes up with the story called "Time Reverse," in which aliens intend to reverse time on Earth to redo human evolution. Natsumi, a girl of his dream, agrees to play the heroine at the last minute, so he finally gets to start filming it during the summer vacation. The complete version of "Time Reverse" is shown toward the end of the story in the way that Hiroshi screens it at the school festival. This is a kind of autobiographical coming-of-age film by director Kazuya Konaka, who has started his career as a so-called “jishu-eiga” (amateur independent film) director, showing the entire process of film-making from inception to completion, including script development, casting, shooting, editing, sound etc.
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