Title of film : The River Breathes
Director Name : Shoji Toyama
Cast & crew :
Producer : Tomoya Takeda,Shinichi Koyama
Editor : Shinsuke Kato
Cast :
Synopsis : Mizuha, amidst her depression of losing her newborn son, returns to her hometown for the first time in ten years. She reunites with her childhood friends Keisuke and Ryota, and they take a walk down a river that still shows signs of a flood that devastated the area during a huge storm. They watch the river and talk about what they saw “at the time.” And there at the river, they witness a mysterious phenomenon.
Director Bio : TOYAMA Shoji (b. 1984, Kumamoto Prefecture) is a film director. In 2012, he directed his first feature film “Our Night is Not Long”. The film was shown and well received in the Japanese Eye Competition division at the Tokyo International Film Festival 2012. His second feature film “Magic Utopia” received the Special Jury Remi Award in the Main Competition at the WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival 2016. His short film “Winter`s Butterfly”, won The Best Asian Film Award at the Teheran International Short Film Festival 2016. Toyama has been energetically making films as well as planning and producing exhibitions and art projects, and works as the director of Saitama Triennale 2020.
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