Where Are You?
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Masahiro Kobayashi
Masahiro Kobayashi
Tokio Emoto
Ryoko Kawai
Kiyoshi Ito
Naoki Kaneko
Film Details
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Synopsis
During school holidays, teenage Ryo works in a grocery store to pay his mother's hospital bills which are already months overdue. He constantly struggles to find money to cover the rent and lives without electricity or running water. To eat, he steals from customers by adding his own food to their grocery bills, until the day a colleague reports him to the manager. Immediately dismissed, Ryo finds some consolation fixing up a wooden row boat washed up on a pebble beach near his home. When his mother dies, Ryo cannot face the unpaid medical bills, when all he wants to do is give his mother a decent funeral. He then tries to re-establish contact with his father who left years ago but his father has problems of his own.
Director
Masahiro Kobayashi
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Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Shown at Locarno International Film Festival (International Competition) August 5-15, 2009.
Shown at Pusan International Film Festival (A Window on Asian Cinema) October 8-16, 2009.
Shown at Rotterdam International Film Festival (Spectrum) January 27-February 7, 2010.
Shown at Vancouver International Film Festival (Dragons and Tigers) October 1-16, 2009.
35mm
color
dialogue Japanese
