¡Ukauka to Shuen
¡Japanese Movie
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[Machine Translation] Goodbye, but not goodbye. A wooden student dormitory that is about to close. This is the story of the last five days of the friends who spent time together. The 23rd Japan Playwrights Association New Playwrights Award winner has been adapted to film! The 23rd Japan Playwrights Association New Playwrights Award winner has been adapted to film! Director Takeshi Ota's feature debut is based on a play he co-wrote with Akira Deguchi as the inaugural piece of shiba-kuma, a theater unit for working adults formed by the director. The play won the New Playwright Award at the 23rd Japan Playwrights Association New Playwrights Award, where distinguished playwrights such as Takeshi Kawamura, Yoji Sakate, Norihiko Tsukuda, Hideo Tsuchida, Ai Nagai, Nozomi Makino, and Eri Watanabe served as judges. The play of the same title, which was inspired by his own youth in the student dormitory "Yoshida Dormitory" at his alma mater, was planned to be made into a film, and director Ota himself rewrote the script for the movie. The film features six fresh young actors, including Seita Nishioka and Yutaro Watanabe, who were selected by audition from over 1,000 applicants to play the main roles in the story. --Shintaro Nishijima is a young businessman who rides his bicycle through the city. Whenever he finds a vacant lot, he stops his bicycle and takes a picture of it with his smartphone. As he checks the photos on his phone, his hand comes to rest on one photo. It was taken five years ago, in a room of an old student dormitory that was scheduled to be demolished in five days. Gunpei Minobe, Kanae Kodama, Nakayoshi Maeno, and Mizuki Watanabe are playing mahjong, and Shintaro is reading a book without interest. That day was a mahjong tournament to commemorate Mizuki's departure from the dormitory. The next day, Kodama is scheduled to leave the dormitory, and the day after that, Nakayoshi is scheduled to leave the dormitory. The five close friends, led by Minobe, the oldest 10th year student, spend their last days together with their regrets and worries about love, life after graduation, student life until then, and what happened in the dormitory. They all left the dormitory because, as tradition dictates, they had painted graffiti on the walls of the dormitory with their feelings in mind. Minobe and Shintaro, who remained until the end of the day, were...
Original Release Year: 2023
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