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| "Meeting Nara Again" was selected as a special screening unit of the Tokyo Film Festival |
1905. The feature film "Meet Nara Again" starring Hayat Kunimura and Masatoshi Nagase was selected for the special screening unit. After being shortlisted for the Golden Goblet Award, the film once again won the favor of the International Category A Film Festival.
Young filmmakers look for another perspective on the memory of the blood of the three generations of the two countries
The story of "Meeting Nara Again" took place in 2005 and tells the story of Chen Huiming (played by Wu Yanshu), who was nearly 80 years old, had not received the adopted daughter after the war for a long time. Lihua's reply, she couldn't help but miss her, and went to Nara, Japan, where she embarked on a long journey of searching for people with the help of the second-generation orphan Ozawa (Eizawa) and the retired policeman Kazuo (Falcon Kunimura). In a foreign country, they met many returned orphans. Their lives showed another side-section of war trauma. Under cultural differences and conflicts, the journey of tracing people became turbulent. Where did the adopted daughter become the biggest in everyone’s hearts? Mystery.
As an anti-war film, the young director Peng Fei uses the perspective of Japanese orphans after World War II to show the damage caused by the war to both China and Japan. After the defeat in 1945, during the retreat of the Japanese side, many children of wartime immigrants were orphaned in the Northeast because their parents lost their lives or returned to the country. They were adopted by Chinese families and became families. With the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Japan, many Japanese orphans were able to return to Japan, but this also resulted in the "separation of flesh and blood" of Chinese families. Speaking of creative ideas, Director Peng Fei said: "At the beginning, I was only certain that I wanted to make an anti-war film, but I didn't have any clear ideas about how to show it. After reading books about Japanese orphans, this kind of transcendence was out of blood. The family relationship deeply shocked me. In the interviews I have seen, the biggest wish of many adoptive mothers is to go to Japan to see their children, so I want to make such a movie, and I want to realize the dreams of these adoptive mothers."
escorted by the top Chinese and Japanese teams. The Shanghai Film Festival’s screening gains a good reputation.
"Meeting Nara Again" gathers top Chinese and Japanese filmmakers. It is produced by Naomi Kawase and Zhangke Jia. Director Pengfei writes and directs himself, Benrong Liao, Bowen Chen, Keiichi Suzuki sculpted the film in photography, editing and soundtrack. Regarding the cooperation with Naomi Kawase, Director Pengfei said: "Because the previous work "The Taste of Rice Flower" won the Audience Choice Award at the Nara Film Festival, I have this opportunity to cooperate with Director Naomi Kawase. I am lucky to cherish and hope that our joint efforts will be liked by everyone.” During the epidemic, Director Pengfei sent a batch of protective masks to Japan. Naomi Kawase publicly expressed his gratitude for this. This spirit of friendship and mutual assistance is also very good. It fits the theme of the movie "Meet Nara" again.
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| "Meeting Nara Again" is produced by Naomi Kawase and Zhangke Jia |
Prior to this, the film was selected for the Golden Goblet Award at the 23rd Shanghai International Film Festival and was screened and received a good reputation. "I liked "The Taste of Rice Flower" very much, and "Meet Nara" is also very light and moving. This scene soothes the tired eyes of the audience." "I like it very much! The identity of the orphans of several generations is confused, the language barrier, and A new balance is constructed between the bells, photos, and gestures, and the emotion of seeking relatives is faintly hidden behind the nature and humanities of Nara." "Currently this year's Chinese favorite, the opening animation of the orphan after the war has already burst into tears. When the ending is familiar The melody sounded, and the tear duct completely broke the bank." This film was selected for the Tokyo International Film Festival, and it is bound to take over the film festival and bring tears and touches to Japan.This audience.
