Visiting the International Film Festival Rotterdam for the 4th time, Japanese actress, producer and director Kiki Sugino is busier than ever. A member on the jury of this year’s Tiger Awards she has a lot of screenings and meetings to attend to, but was able to make some time to meet me in the press room of the festival to talk about her latest project, Hotori no Sakuko, internationally released as Au revoir l’été.
How is the festival up till now?
I came here on the 24th, so I’ve been here for 4 days now and still have seen only half of the films I have to review for the Tiger Awards. So I’m still in the middle of things.
Yes you are a member on the Jury of the Tiger Awards this year, can you tell us a bit about that?
We are with 5 jury members in total,...
How is the festival up till now?
I came here on the 24th, so I’ve been here for 4 days now and still have seen only half of the films I have to review for the Tiger Awards. So I’m still in the middle of things.
Yes you are a member on the Jury of the Tiger Awards this year, can you tell us a bit about that?
We are with 5 jury members in total,...
- 4/16/2014
- by Thor
- AsianMoviePulse
Hospitalité (Kantai)
Directed by Koji Fukada
Japan, 2010
Hospitalité opens with the slow introduction of the family of Mikio Kobayashi, a man running a print business through his home. He lives with his young second wife Natsuki, his daughter Eriko, and sister Seiko, who has returned following a recent divorce. Bar the disappearance of a pet bird, there seems little dramatic about their sleepy suburb existence, though local community watch members endlessly fret about homeless people or foreigners seeping into the neighbourhood. Things change relatively quickly and drastically with the arrival of the mysterious Kagawa. An initially helpful seeming presence, Kagawa arrives at the household having seemingly found their lost bird, but through circumstance and smooth talking ends up becoming a live-in employee. He promptly brings an aloof blonde woman to stay with him without permission, explaining that she is his wife; the white Annabelle, who is barely able to speak Japanese,...
Directed by Koji Fukada
Japan, 2010
Hospitalité opens with the slow introduction of the family of Mikio Kobayashi, a man running a print business through his home. He lives with his young second wife Natsuki, his daughter Eriko, and sister Seiko, who has returned following a recent divorce. Bar the disappearance of a pet bird, there seems little dramatic about their sleepy suburb existence, though local community watch members endlessly fret about homeless people or foreigners seeping into the neighbourhood. Things change relatively quickly and drastically with the arrival of the mysterious Kagawa. An initially helpful seeming presence, Kagawa arrives at the household having seemingly found their lost bird, but through circumstance and smooth talking ends up becoming a live-in employee. He promptly brings an aloof blonde woman to stay with him without permission, explaining that she is his wife; the white Annabelle, who is barely able to speak Japanese,...
- 6/25/2012
- by Josh Slater-Williams
- SoundOnSight
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