Year: 1999
Duration: 60'
Nakamura, an old man, is driving back to his hometown, Hokkaido. On the trip he meets Akemi, a young woman whose boyfriend has just left her in the aftermath of a fight. The two continue the trip together and slowly get to know each other. Shizuko, a middle-aged woman, then ends up joining them. She is fleeing with a considerable sum of money. Goh is with her, an ex-cop who tries to commit suicide several times.
Biography
film director
Mito Hineki
Mito Hineki (1969) directed his first 8mm feature film in 1993. In 1996 he directed a 16mm short film. Homesick is an independent production made while Hineki was otherwise working as an assistant director.
FILMOGRAFIA
Strange High (lm, 8mm, 1993), Nou no Kyujitsu (Brain on Vacation, cm, 16mm, 1996), Homesick (1999).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Mito Hineki.
Screenplay: Mito Hineki, Tamiya Takehiko.
Director of photography: Tamiya Takehiko.
Editor: Nishioka Yoko.
Art director: Yoshida Hideo.
Costume designer: Odagiri Yoko.
Sound: Usui Masaru.
Music: Murayama Tatsuya.
Cast and characters: Okumura Kiminobu (Nakamura), Onobara Aki (Akemi), Yamanashi Hana (Shizuko), Kondo Masato (Goh), Komiyama Hiroshi (Hiroshi), Tsurumi Shingo (Nakamura giovane).
Production company: Miyazaki Tsuyoshi, Mito Hidenobu, Hatano Yukari per Movers Entertainment, 3-61-14-103 Konenjiminami, Suginami-ku, Tokyo, Japan, tel./fax +81-3-53062199.
Foreign sales agent: Slow Learner, 12-3-503 Udagawa-cho, Shibuya-ku, 150-0042 Tokyo, Japan, tel. +81-3-37703717, fax +81-3-37703718, e-mail slow-l@kg7.so-net.ne.jp