Although, in their vast majority, they are not at all well known outside Japan, indie dramas are probably the genre with the most entries in Japanese cinema. Among this plethora, “Laundry” is one of the films that stands apart.
Twenty-year-old Teru had an accident when he was a child that has impaired his intellectual ability, making him think and act like a little kid. Not having many options, he “works” at his grandma’s coin laundry, where he actually acts as a guard against perverts trying to steal women’s underwear. The regulars are a number of peculiar individuals, including a middle-aged photographer who has forcefully made Teru hang her framed photos on the wall of the shop, and a failed boxer, who after his latest loss decides to spend much of his time inside one of the washing machines. Teru’s life moves slowly and uneventfully, until Mizue, a gorgeous woman,...
Twenty-year-old Teru had an accident when he was a child that has impaired his intellectual ability, making him think and act like a little kid. Not having many options, he “works” at his grandma’s coin laundry, where he actually acts as a guard against perverts trying to steal women’s underwear. The regulars are a number of peculiar individuals, including a middle-aged photographer who has forcefully made Teru hang her framed photos on the wall of the shop, and a failed boxer, who after his latest loss decides to spend much of his time inside one of the washing machines. Teru’s life moves slowly and uneventfully, until Mizue, a gorgeous woman,...
- 8/31/2016
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Exclusive: Japan’s Shochiku has sold Berlinale Culinary Cinema title Little Forest to Korea and Taiwan.
Directed by Junichi Mori (Laundry), Little Forest has been sold to JinJin Pictures for Korea and Flash Forward Entertainment for Taiwan.
Ai Hashimoto (Confessions) and Takahiro Miura (Chronicle Of My Mother) star in the film.
Little Forest is a four-part film officially divided in two portions for theatrical release - “Summer & Autumn” and “Winter & Spring”.
A young woman moves back to her hometown from the city where she had a hard time adjusting, and survives cooking for herself the food she farms and gathers on the fields and mountains, throughout the changing seasons.
Last month, the Berlinale’s Culinary Cinema section screened Little Forest: Summer/Winter – choosing two seasons showing the biggest contrast.
Shochiku has Little Forest: Winter & Spring screening for the first time at Filmart.
Directed by Junichi Mori (Laundry), Little Forest has been sold to JinJin Pictures for Korea and Flash Forward Entertainment for Taiwan.
Ai Hashimoto (Confessions) and Takahiro Miura (Chronicle Of My Mother) star in the film.
Little Forest is a four-part film officially divided in two portions for theatrical release - “Summer & Autumn” and “Winter & Spring”.
A young woman moves back to her hometown from the city where she had a hard time adjusting, and survives cooking for herself the food she farms and gathers on the fields and mountains, throughout the changing seasons.
Last month, the Berlinale’s Culinary Cinema section screened Little Forest: Summer/Winter – choosing two seasons showing the biggest contrast.
Shochiku has Little Forest: Winter & Spring screening for the first time at Filmart.
- 3/23/2015
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
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