Year: 2010
Duration: 60'
Bion 28-year-old Shiho was traumatized as a young girl when she was separated from her mother and has never gotten over the experience. She finally goes to visit her mother and makes the bitter discovery that the love that once united them is no more. Thus, when a few days later she hears that her mother has died, the girl is torn between conflicting emotions and lets herself be overcome by deep melancholy. In search of new stimuli, she enrolls in a cooking class. One day, after a lesson, she meets Masato and this encounter with the young man seems to bring serenity back into the girl’s life. “The scenery of Nara was so peaceful, that it brought me a warm feeling while I was staying here. I particularly paid attention to ‘beautiful sounds’ in daily life so that the audience will be able to notice smelsl and moods more in this movie. There are sounds of cooking, planing, firewood chopping, a bonfire, a bell, wind and rain, and a rustling bamboo grove, and small birds chirping. Please listen carefully and enjoy them.”
Biography
film director
Toyoko Yamasaki
Toyoko Yamasaki (Osaka, Japan, 1975), after graduating from the Osaka Visual Arts College, worked at a production company that makes TV programs. She then founded the production company Okoku. Her film Bion won the special jury prize at the Nagaoka Asian Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia/filmography
Bion (mm, 2010).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Toyoko Yamasaki
fotografia/cinematography
Masami Inomoto
suono/sound
Hironori Ito
interpreti/cast
Akiko Monou (Shiho), Tohta Komizu (Masato), Lily
produttore/producer
Naomi Kawase
vendita all’estero/world sales
Nara International Film Festival Organizing Committee
