NipponConnection2022
22. Nippon Connection Filmfestival - 24. bis 29. Mai 2022 in Frankfurt am Main
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- DirectorShô MiyakeStarsYukino KishiiMasaki MiuraShinichirô MatsuuraA hearing-impaired woman with dreams of becoming a professional boxer due to the pandemic is threatened closure of her boxing club and the illness of its ageing president, who has been her biggest supporter, push her to the limit.
- DirectorRyûsuke HamaguchiStarsKotone FurukawaAyumu NakajimaHyunriAn unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction trap and an encounter that results from a misunderstanding, told in three movements to depict three female characters and trace the trajectories between their choices and regrets.
- DirectorShôgo KusanoStarsAkana IkedaTsubasa ImaiHayato IsomuraThe high student is closeted and gay. Roaming a local bookstore he comes across his female class-mate and notices that she is picking on male homoerotic fantasy graphic novels. The girl wants her taste and preference kept a secret. They agree and become close friends. She professes her love for him. They begin to date, but he is gay.
- DirectorNobuhiro DoiStarsMasaki SudaKasumi ArimuraKaya KiyoharaA love story spanning 5 years between a man and a woman. A 22-year-old man and a 22-year-old woman both miss the last train at Meidaimae Station in Tokyo and meet there. Their relationship develops romantically.
- DirectorTatsushi ÔmoriStarsMana AshidaTomoyo HaradaHaru KurokiEczema was common for infant Chihiro.She was young and suffered, but her parents were the more anxious ones as they tried several methods and cures to help their daughter. Nothing worked. An acquaintance wades into religion and superstition.The girl was cured. Tis lead the family to gravitate towards the cult. With Chihiro now older and coming into herself she faces the superstitious parents, her own self realization and what all of this means.
- DirectorJoe OdagiriStarsAkira EmotoRirika KawashimaNijirô MurakamiWhy does one need a ferryman? One needs a ferryman where there is a body of water and a bridge does not exist. The village high in the hills has a ferryman, but a bridge is in the works. The poor peasant is about to become even more poor. The people, livestock and goods won't need his services much longer. His life also takes an abrupt turn another way. He meets a young girl on a day when everything was supposed to go like any other day.
- DirectorMasayuki SuôStarsRyo NaritaYuina KuroshimaKengo KôraSet in early 20th Century Japan, the movie follows the adventures of a young man who wants to get into the movie business -- but in a job unique to his country: a dramatic narrator for silent movies known as "Katsubenshi" or just "benshi". Comedy and action ensue as he becomes entangled with competing movie theaters where the crowds are drawn mostly by the skills of the dramatic interpreters rather than the movies themselves.
- DirectorYûichirô SakashitaStarsEiji AkasoMantarô KoichiMasataka KubotaTsutomu Tanimura is a 30-year-old man, living in a provincial city. He works as a private secretary for Shohei Kawashima, who is a member of the House of Representatives and he has strong support from his constituents. One day, Shohei collapses. Around this time, the House of Representatives is dissolved. For the next House of Representatives election, Shohei's 45-year-old daughter, Yumi, decides to run for office.
- DirectorTakahiro HorieStarsTasuku EmotoJun FubukiNao HondaManga-ka (manga author) Sawako suspects that her husband is having an affair. Instead of confronting him directly, she finds a more creative way to drop the hint.
- DirectorShin'ichirô UedaStarsYôji MinagawaHidenobu AberaEri TokunagaAn unidentifiable object zips through the sky. A suspicious looking man holding a net suddenly appears, trying to catch the thing that ran away from him. He must catch that high-speed "buddy" within six days or he will lose it forever.
- DirectorKensaku KakimotoStarsKento HayashiRyo IshibashiArata IuraA man named Kengo Kosaka is germaphobe, Due to his disorder, he is also a lonely young man. Meanwhile, high school student Hijiri Sanagi has Ommatophobia. Both Kengo Kosaka and Hijiri Sanagi do not expect to find love with another person.
- DirectorRyôta NakanoStarsKazunari NinomiyaSatoshi TsumabukiHaru KurokiWhen disaster strikes Japan in the form of a tsunami and subsequent nuclear reactor meltdown, a young photographer copes with tragedy by creating photographic portraits of his family.
- DirectorYûjirô HarumotoStarsRyô IkedaYumi KawaiYôta KawaseWhile documenting a controversial tragedy that shook her community, a filmmaker must put her morals to the test when a perverse secret in her own life is revealed.
- DirectorHana MatsumotoStarsTakumi KitamuraYuina KuroshimaYûki InoueA young man falls in love with a woman he meets at a party, but when she leaves him, he must face some uncomfortable truths.
- DirectorKeisuke YoshidaStarsKisetsu FujiwaraArata FurutaAoi ItôA teenager girl's accidental death incites a media frenzy and causes her harsh father to turn his range against those he believes are responsible.
- DirectorTakuma SatôStarsTaiga NakanoRiho YoshiokaKan'ichirô SatôA naked drunk man shows up on a national live TV in the middle of a sacred festival Namahage, where men dressed in ogre-like costume visit homes to scare kids not to do bad things in the next year. The man, young father Tasuku, gets ostracized for shaming the village and its tradition, flees to Tokyo by himself. After two years, he comes back to his hometown to make it up to his ex-wife and their little daughter, but the reality bites.
- DirectorDaigo MatsuiStarsSôsuke IkematsuSairi ItôKalen AnzaiA former couple remembers their most intimate days, only to part once again.
- DirectorYûya IshiiStarsHideyuki KasaharaYuki KatayamaAki MaedaRyoko has not had fortune smile upon her recently. She is attractive, but lost her husband in a traffic accident seven years ago. She received no consolation for that or how she has to take care of a son and a father-in-law. She runs a cafe to make ends meet. Safe to say she is a busy mother. To make matters worse, her son begins experiencing trouble at school.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsTôma IkutaPaolo Andrea Di PietroKen'ichi EndôTrilogy about a cop who goes undercover and becomes a fully-fledged Yakuza.
- DirectorJunji SakamotoStarsEtsushi ToyokawaKiryu Kaoru is a lonely robot engineer. Ever since childhood, he felt he lived more like a robot than a man. To counteract his anxieties, he has devoted his life to developing his own android as another version of himself. One day, his half-brother shows up in the abandoned building he calls home.
- DirectorKazuya ShiraishiStarsShô AoyagiMiwako KakeiHiroto KanaiSet several years after The Blood Of Wolves and Ogami Shogo's death in the Western city of Hiroshima, the detective's plan to surround and control the yakuza low-lives has been implemented and is working. Much bloodshed and potential death has been prevented. However, the release of one criminal element places everything in jeopardy.
- DirectorJim JarmuschStarsMasatoshi NagaseYûki KudôScreamin' Jay HawkinsThree stories are connected by a Memphis hotel and the spirit of Elvis Presley.