Japanese studio Nikkatsu has bolstered its Filmart sales slate with A Big Home, the next feature from director Ryo Takebayashi.
The documentary is filmed in a children’s home in Tokyo and explores the lives of young people who live apart from their parents due to bereavement, abuse or financial problems.
It marks the third feature by Takebayashi, whose previous film was comedy Mondays: See You ‘This’ Week!, which played at festivals including Sitges and Shanghai in 2023. His first was Bookmark 14, a doc that followed 35 teenagers from the same school class.
A Big Home is produced by Chocolate Inc. and...
The documentary is filmed in a children’s home in Tokyo and explores the lives of young people who live apart from their parents due to bereavement, abuse or financial problems.
It marks the third feature by Takebayashi, whose previous film was comedy Mondays: See You ‘This’ Week!, which played at festivals including Sitges and Shanghai in 2023. His first was Bookmark 14, a doc that followed 35 teenagers from the same school class.
A Big Home is produced by Chocolate Inc. and...
- 3/11/2024
- ScreenDaily
“It's groundhog week! Akemi and her office colleagues go through the same work week over and over again. The time loop might be caused by their boss's procrastination and his unfinished manga.”
Ryo Takebayashi's “Mondays: See You “This” Week!” wastes no time diving into its absurd ‘groundhog day' scenario of a group of office workers caught in an infinite loop, placing two staffers as peculiar eccentrics working to convince their co-worker, Akemi, of the perplexing scenario. As each member of the office is brought into the fold of being aware of this repetition, the humor only escalates as they turn their eyes on their boss whose hidden desires may be the catalyst for the cyclical nightmare the workers find themselves trapped in.
Mondays: See You “This” Week is screening at Nippon Connection
This no-nonsense, quick-fire approach to comedy works swimmingly in “Mondays: See You “This” Week!”, ensuring the quirky...
Ryo Takebayashi's “Mondays: See You “This” Week!” wastes no time diving into its absurd ‘groundhog day' scenario of a group of office workers caught in an infinite loop, placing two staffers as peculiar eccentrics working to convince their co-worker, Akemi, of the perplexing scenario. As each member of the office is brought into the fold of being aware of this repetition, the humor only escalates as they turn their eyes on their boss whose hidden desires may be the catalyst for the cyclical nightmare the workers find themselves trapped in.
Mondays: See You “This” Week is screening at Nippon Connection
This no-nonsense, quick-fire approach to comedy works swimmingly in “Mondays: See You “This” Week!”, ensuring the quirky...
- 6/11/2023
- by Adam Symchuk
- AsianMoviePulse
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