Saudade
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Date
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Location
Cinemateca PortuguesaCinema Museum
In Japanese, Portuguese and Thai. Subtitled in English and with electronic subtitles in Portuguese.
With a sensitive and authentic eye, Tomita captures the melancholy and strength of a community, incorporating into the film the real lives of those who sing and dance to forget their pain.
Construction workers, immigrants, and hip-hop. What is the reality in rural Kofu!?
With its streets lined with shops closing down one after another, the city of Kofu is facing the risk of extinction. This is how the media has portrayed as being the reality of rural Kofu. However, not everyone has abandoned it. Where have they gone to, then?
After spending more than a year doing research about Kofu’s current situation, filmmaker Katsuya Tomita got to know the Japanese-Brazilian diaspora, Thai and other Asian low-wage labourers, and short-term contract workers. What he saw there was the reality of people working under tough circumstances, and their struggle for “life” in rural Japan.
Offering a glimpse into the exhilarating world of Japanese artists’ moving image, ‘Engawa Films’ seeks to stake a place for its existence in Japanese contemporary art and cinema.
The tickets for this screening should be bought at Cinemateca Portuguesa.
Duration: 167 min.
Engawa – A Season of Contemporary Art from Japan
‘Engawa’ is a programming that brings to Lisbon a set of creators from Japan and the Japanese diaspora, many of them for the first time in Portugal. More info
Biographies
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Katsuya Tomita
Katsuya Tomita (Kofu, Japan, 1972) moved to Tokyo upon graduating from high school to pursue his dream of one day becoming a musician. Throughout his days in Tokyo, he spent his time watching films and began to develop a desire to make films. He went on to earning cash working delivery jobs, and used his earnings to film. In 2003, he released his first work ‘Above the Clouds’ (8mm), which took him five years to make. The film was awarded the highest prize in the Film School of Tokyo’s 2004 film festival. He is one of the founders of the filmmaker’s group KUZOKU which aims to seek alternative ways to distribute film in the Japanese film industry. ‘SAUDADE’ was produced from donations collected from KUZOKU supporters.
Credits
Curatorship
Julian Ross
Production
KUZOKU
Executive Producer
Takayuki Sasamoto
Producers
Kotaro Date and Satomi Tomita
Director
Katsuya Tomita
Screenplay
Toranosuke Aizawa and Katsuya Tomita
Cast
Tsuyoshi Takano
Hitoshi Ito
Dengaryu (from stillichimiya)
Deejai Paweena
Ai Ozaki
Chie Kudo
Dennis Oliveira de Hamatsu
Ieda de Almeida Hamatsu
Yusuke Noguchi
Shinji Murata
Tomohito Nakajima
Yota Kawase
stillichimiya (Young-G, Big Ben, MMM, PONY, mestar, KTY, maro)
Fabio Yuji Mori
Fabio Shimazaki
Cinematography
Yoshiko Takano
Sound
Iwao Yamazaki
Assistant director
Kentaro Kawakami
Editors
Katsuya Tomita
Yoshiko Takano
Still Photographer
Ikuko Hirose
Production designer & art director
Hiroshi Imamura
Partnership
Collaboration
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