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Japan 1999 / 35 mm / Color / 75 min. | |||
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Akira and Koichi, two 10-year-olds, are two troublemakers at school, constantly encouraging each other in their misbehaviour. Attracted by their notoriety is Akira's classmate Kinoshita, and the trio soon get into a fight with a group of junior high schoolers. They lose the fight but have a good laugh about it. One day at the park, Akira and Kinoshita run into Nomura, another classmate. Nomura is a shy kid whom no one notices at school. They accompany Nomura home and are surprised to discover that Nomura has a remarkable talent for building models from kits. The models are of World War II tanks and Akira is amazed by their quality; he is astonished to find a true talent among his schoolmates. Their relationship grows. Nomura invites Akira to his birthday party. When Akira declines at the last minute, Nomura visits Akira and brings him the plastic model he had intended to give him at the party. In return, Akira shows Nomura how to stick firecrackers in paper airplanes and, along the way, catches the attention of Tamayo, the girl in the neighbouring house. But this idyllic childhood is not meant to last. Abrupt changes are just beyond the horizon... Although there are moments of boisterousness, the overall effect of DON'T LOOK BACK is quiet and contemplative. It may remind you of Fran�ois Truffaut's SMALL CHANGE in the way it clearly accepts childhood on its own level. -- Burl Burlingame (Honolulu Star-Bulletin) |
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| Script: Akihiko Shiota. Phot.: Kazuhiro Suzuki. Ed.: Takefumi Tsutsui. Mus.: Yuichi Kishino. Cast: Yuusaku Suzuki, Shingo Mizuno, Yuya Suzuki, Yuria Haga, Kanade Ando. Prod.: Kenzo Horikoshi, Hiroko Matsuda, Euro Space, 24-2-7F Sakuragaoka-cho, Shibuyan-ku, Tokyo 150-0031 (Japon), t�l.: (81-3) 3461 02 12, fax: (81-3) 3770 41 79 / The Film School of Tokyo, 3-1-2 IF Kyobashi Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0031 (Japon), t�l.: (81-3) 5205 35 65, fax: (81-3) 5205 35 66. Sales: Euro Space. | |||
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Akihiko Shiota Born in Kyoto in 1961, Akihiko Shiota studied at the University of Rikkyo before apprenticing in film direction under Kiyoshi Kurosawa (CURE) and screenwriting under Atsushi Yamatoya (BRANDED TO KILL). He began working as a scriptwriter in the early '90s, made a short video, The Nude Woman, in 1996, and began teaching at the Tokyo Film School in 1997. He directed his first feature, MOONLIGHT WHISPERS, in 1999. |