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"A delightful film, very brave and full of self-irony"
- Nicholas Fraser, commissioning editor, BBC TV —
— "deeply moving" - Phillip French, The Observer
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— "What makes this film so compelling is the tension
between the fraught emotions at work and the traditional Japanese
reserve used to express them." Time Out review Feb. 15
1994 |
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Osaka Story
- a documentary |
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| Awards:
Grand Prix - Film Festival of International
Film Students, Japan (1994)
Gold Hugo - Chicago International Film Festival, USA (1994)
Special Jury Prize - Vancouver International Film Festival,
Canada (1994)
JVC Best Student Film - Royal Anthropological Institute International
Festival of Ethnographic Film, UK (1994)
Prix du Bibliothèques - Cinéma du Réel,
Paris France (1995)
Broadcast:
BBC2 Fine Cut
Australia - SBS
Germany - S3
Finland - TV2
Korea
Taiwan
Theatrical release:
in cinemas in London (ICA), Tokyo and Osaka
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Osaka
Story - a documentary
After three years abroad, film-maker Toichi Nakata returns home
to Osaka, Japan, and turns a camera on his family, confronting
all its hidden fault-lines and hidden schisms.
It's a family of contradictory Korean and Japanese loyalties,
with a father torn between two families, a mother worrying about
her present and future position, a brother torn between the
family business empire and a cult religion and a sister who
has opted to go her own way.
Credits:
Director/Producer and Sound - Toichi Nakata
Associate Director and Camera - Simon Atkins
Producer - Ichiro Matsumoto |
