| Sora no Anna |
| Rating: * * * 1/2 Director: Kazuyoshi Kumakiri Running time: 127 minutes Language: English
Now showing |
At the 1997 Pia Film Festival, Japan's largest indie-film event, Kazuyoshi Kumakiri won the second grand prize for "Kichiku Daienkai (Banquet of the Beasts)," his graduation project for the film program at Osaka Art University. Eurospace then screened the film at its Shibuya theater, where it became a long-running hit, and several overseas film festivals, including the prestigious Berlin Film Festival, selected it for their programs. A pleasant young man from rural Hokkaido, Kumakiri had gotten the kind of career launch that every fledging filmmaker dreams of.
Yuriko Kikuchi (above) and Susumu Terajima in Kazuyoshi Kumakiri's "Sora no Anna"