Year: 2010
Duration: 60'
last chestnuts A woman who has been a patient at a hospital in Tokyo for a long time goes to Kashihara, in the district of Nara, where she hopes to find her son. But the only clues which can help her in her search are her memories and a couple of photographs in the digital camera her son forgot at the hospital. As she searches for the boy, the woman becomes acquainted with his friends and comes into contact with the beautiful natural surroundings of that region. But her dream of finding her son before her illness takes her life remains unfulfilled. “This is a story about a mother and may be called her ‘spiritual journey.’ We didn’t set up the scenes in detail, but instead, we let the actress act as she would as a mother of a son, which gives us a sense of reality in every scene, or rather what you will see is the way a mother would take action by instinct for her beloved child. This project turned out to be a very interesting and new experience for us.”
Biography
film director
Ye Zhao
Zhao Ye (Beijing, China, 1979) graduated in 2004 from the Beijing Film Academy, where majored in the animation department and developed his passion for art, that was born in his high school years. He directed his first short, the animation movie Weed Picker, in 2004. His debut feature, Ma Wu Jia (2007), screened at numerous international film festivals
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia/filmography
Cai wei (Weed Picker, cm, anim., 2004), Ma wu jia (2007), Zha lai nuo er (Jalainur, 2008), Last Chestnuts (mm, 2010).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Zhao Ye
fotografia/cinematography
Hideyo Nakano
suono/sound
Eiji Mori
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Kaori Momoi (la madre/Mother), Setsuko Dodo, Shigeki Uda
produttore/producer
Naomi Kawase
vendita all’estero/world sales
Nara International Film Festival Organizing Committee
