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The Kirishima Thing

YOSHIDA Daihachi

Japan2013 103min DCP Color

Synopsis

News that the school’s ‘star’ Kirishima has quit the captain of volleyball team and disappeared sends shock waves throughout the campus. The unexpected news affects everyone – the dynamics between classmates and various clubs begin to shift…(17th edition, winner of NETPAC Award)

Diretor

YOSHIDA Daihachi

Born in 1963, Yoshida Dihachi won numerous awards including Silver Award of Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival. In 2007, his first feature Funuke Show Some Love, You Losers! (2007)was invited Cannes Critic’s Week. And his other film Permanent Nobara (2010) won at BIFAN. His other films include The Kirishima Thing and Pale Moon (2014).