Generally speaking, I don’t do romantic comedies or romantic dramas. They just don’t settle very well with me. I keep expecting a gunfight or a martial arts sequence to break out, and I’m often very disappointed when that doesn’t happen. Even though I’ve learned to keep my expectations under control, my love for visceral action and elaborately staged fight scenes simply cannot be contained. And while I seriously doubt there’s anything of the sort in writer/director Eriko Kitagawa’s “I Have to Buy New Shoes”, I’m still strangely drawn to the film for reasons I simply cannot explain. Am I going soft? Yikes. Here’s a short but effective synopsis from AsianWiki: Freelance writer Aoi Teshigahara (Miho Nakayama) lives in Paris, France. Sen Yagami (Osamu Mukai) is a photographer who came to Paris, France due to his younger sister Suzume’s (Mirei Kiritani) insistance.
- 8/7/2012
- by Todd Rigney
- Beyond Hollywood
Back in January, a very brief news item was posted on the Iwai Shunji Film Festival website announcing the fact that Iwai would be producing a film by writer/director Eriko Kitagawa called Atarashii Kutsu wo Kawanakucha and it would be filmed entirely in Paris. Earlier today, further details came out of Paris, where filming is currently underway.
The movie stars Miho Nakayama—a Paris native since 2003—and Osamu Mukai. Nakayama plays a freelance writer named Aoi who breaks the heel of her shoe and has a chance encounter with a young photographer named Sen (Mukai), who was brought to Paris by his younger sister. The meeting sparks an immediate attraction between them even with their 12-year age gap, and their subsequent romance is depicted over a span of three days.
Iwai and Kitagawa previously partnered on the high school romance-themed film Halfway in 2009. Kitagawa was primarily a TV drama screenwriter up to that point.
The movie stars Miho Nakayama—a Paris native since 2003—and Osamu Mukai. Nakayama plays a freelance writer named Aoi who breaks the heel of her shoe and has a chance encounter with a young photographer named Sen (Mukai), who was brought to Paris by his younger sister. The meeting sparks an immediate attraction between them even with their 12-year age gap, and their subsequent romance is depicted over a span of three days.
Iwai and Kitagawa previously partnered on the high school romance-themed film Halfway in 2009. Kitagawa was primarily a TV drama screenwriter up to that point.
- 3/28/2012
- Nippon Cinema
[Our thanks to Christopher Bourne for the following review.]
“Go Don’t.” In a late scene in Eriko Kitagawa’s lovely and bittersweet high school romance Halfway, love-struck senior Hiro (Kii Kitano) scrawls these two Japanese characters on a piece of paper, a gesture that perfectly expresses her confusion over whether to let her boyfriend Shu (Masaki Okada) go to college in Tokyo, far from her hometown of Hokkaido. Hiro, in the waning days of the school year, has finally landed the dreamy basketball star she has been pining after for a very long time. This happens by very serendipitous circumstances, when she feels faint while watching Shu at a game and has to see the school nurse. Hiro relates excitedly to her friend Meme (Riisa Naka) her intention to finally tell him how she feels, and soon after goes to sleep. When she awakens, she talks of her dream in which she finally gets the courage to express her love to Shu.
“Go Don’t.” In a late scene in Eriko Kitagawa’s lovely and bittersweet high school romance Halfway, love-struck senior Hiro (Kii Kitano) scrawls these two Japanese characters on a piece of paper, a gesture that perfectly expresses her confusion over whether to let her boyfriend Shu (Masaki Okada) go to college in Tokyo, far from her hometown of Hokkaido. Hiro, in the waning days of the school year, has finally landed the dreamy basketball star she has been pining after for a very long time. This happens by very serendipitous circumstances, when she feels faint while watching Shu at a game and has to see the school nurse. Hiro relates excitedly to her friend Meme (Riisa Naka) her intention to finally tell him how she feels, and soon after goes to sleep. When she awakens, she talks of her dream in which she finally gets the courage to express her love to Shu.
- 7/10/2009
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
Strange news comes from the land of the rising sun. There has been movement in the Bandage film camp. Seems like Kitamura got caught selling Meiji Gummy Choco’s to the fat kids and got himself kicked out. There are new faces!
First, there is a new director for the project. Music producer Takeshi Kobayashi will helm his first fictional motion picture. He doesn’t have much of a resume on film making but he has proven his chops in the music world. He did the music for the movie’s scriptwriter Shunji Iwai’s Swallowtail [1996] and All About Lily Chou-Chou [2001]. They are both producing Eriko Kitagawa’s Harufuwei/Halfway due out in February 2009. So they have a good working relationship at least.
Second, Kat-tun member Jin Akanishi makes his silver screen debut with the starring role in the movie. Akanishi has had plenty of television roles the last nine...
First, there is a new director for the project. Music producer Takeshi Kobayashi will helm his first fictional motion picture. He doesn’t have much of a resume on film making but he has proven his chops in the music world. He did the music for the movie’s scriptwriter Shunji Iwai’s Swallowtail [1996] and All About Lily Chou-Chou [2001]. They are both producing Eriko Kitagawa’s Harufuwei/Halfway due out in February 2009. So they have a good working relationship at least.
Second, Kat-tun member Jin Akanishi makes his silver screen debut with the starring role in the movie. Akanishi has had plenty of television roles the last nine...
- 10/29/2008
- by Mack
- Screen Anarchy
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