Kyoshi Sugita's fourth feature Following The Sound about four people coming to terms with great personal losses had its world premiere in Venice Film Festival‘s Giornate Degli Autori competiton programme earlier this autumn. Like in his previous films, Sugita makes use of his great understanding of sound or absence of it to craft a compelling story that this time centers around a young woman who, still greaving her mother's passing, makes bond with people who's been living with the same pain.
The Japanese helmer came to Viennale to present his movie to the Austrian audience, and we took the opportunity to sit down with him and talk about his love for the hidden codes of human emotions, the welcoming opportunities that a static camera offers and about turning inner insecurities into one's advantage.
Could you tell us something about your trademark use of sound to create a form...
The Japanese helmer came to Viennale to present his movie to the Austrian audience, and we took the opportunity to sit down with him and talk about his love for the hidden codes of human emotions, the welcoming opportunities that a static camera offers and about turning inner insecurities into one's advantage.
Could you tell us something about your trademark use of sound to create a form...
- 11/3/2023
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
Kyoshi Sugita is a name the international festival-going audience became aware of since his debut “A Song I Remember” (2011), but the true break-through came with his much anticipated ” Haruhara-san's Recorder” (2021). In his contemplative, gentle drama “Following The Sound” about three people's different ways of dealing with grief, there is a lot of following in its most literal sense, and the sound may just be a part of it all, but it still leads the way. As a proper introduction, the film kicks off with a scene in which the main character Haru (An Ogawa) gets emotionally transported to her past by listening to the recording of burbling water, and that particular tape will remain a key to maintain her connection with the past, and making her ready ready to connect other dots.
“Following the Sound” in Venice International Film Festival
With his fourth feature that premiered in Venice Film Festival's Giornate Degli Autori competiton programme,...
“Following the Sound” in Venice International Film Festival
With his fourth feature that premiered in Venice Film Festival's Giornate Degli Autori competiton programme,...
- 9/17/2023
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
Paralyzed by societal lockdowns, spiritual isolation, and deaths in the millions, the aftermath of Covid-19's rampant virulency continues to deepen the ignorance of a people left traumatized and numb by its ceaseless waves of devastation. Simultaneously fresh and distant, memories of the decade thus far are still distinctly raw, a stinging reminder of mortality, impermanence, and the absurd futility of existence. Though humanity blazes forward with its eyes firmly negating the rearview mirror, many remain immobilized in a state of ennui, desperate yet incapable of regaining control and contentment. Daisuke Miyazaki's coming-of-age drama ‘Plastic' wades into the deep end of this murky quagmire and slowly subdues itself under the crushing weight of its own hopelessness; stripped of pleasure and joy, both the film and its characters struggle to merely exist in a world brought to a complete standstill.
Plastic is screening at Japan Cuts
Ibuki (An Ogawa...
Plastic is screening at Japan Cuts
Ibuki (An Ogawa...
- 7/29/2023
- by JC Cansdale-Cook
- AsianMoviePulse
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