Drowning Love | 溺れるナイフ J-Film

Drama

Presented by JICC, Embassy of Japan and Japan Commerce Association of Washington, D.C.

18 SEP 2019 WED, 6:30 PM JICC

Based on the best-selling comic "Oboreru Knife" by George Asakura

Natsume, a teenage fashion model moving from Tokyo, spends the days without any dreams or excitement. After meeting Koichiro, successor of a Shinto priest family, she finds herself falling under his spell. Both separately and together, she tries to find her place in life through the relationship with Koichiro.

Starring Nana Komatsu, Masaki Suda, Daiki Shigeoka

WOMEN IN CINEMA

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR


Photo ©Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan

While studying at Sophia University as a philosophy student, Yuki Yamato wrote and directed That Girl Is Dancing By the Seaside (2012) which received a Special Jury Prize at the Tokyo Student Film Festival. She continued directing until graduation and afterwards, receiving the Best New Director Award from the Japanese Professional Movie Association. Yamato's 2016 film Drowning Love was released to critical acclaim and her most recent film is Hot Gimmick: Girl Meets Boy (2019).

In Japanese with English subtitles | Not Rated | 2016 | 111 min | Directed by Yuki Yamato

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