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Subete no Yoru wo Omoidasu

Remembering Every Night
Forum 2023
© 2022 PFF PARTNERS (Pia/HoriPro Inc./NIKKATSU) /PFF General Incorporated Association
Tama New Town is a residential area to the west of Tokyo, built in the mid-1960s when housing costs were exploding in Japan’s capital. Multi-storey residential blocks, swathes of green parks and communal public space bear witness to a social vision that has since passed into history.
The latest film from Yui Kiyohara – who previously screened Our House at the Forum in 2018 – follows three women over the course of one day as they move in and around Tama New Town. It is a film built around the quotidian: appointments at the job centre, bus rides, cycling, the pleasure of seeing early summer blooms in the park or glimpsing ever-new perspectives on utilitarian architecture. The three characters occasionally cross paths, such as when the eldest of the trio imitates the younger’s movements as she dances in the park. This is all orchestrated by camerawork and editing that demonstrate a remarkable sense of intimacy and distance and an equally unerring awareness of the optimal moment for an unexpected counter-shot; here and there a synthesiser intrudes into the proceedings, spitting out gurgling, rattling sounds in the gentlest of ways.
by Yui Kiyohara
with Kumi Hyodo, Minami Ohba, Ai Mikami, Guama Uchida, Tadashi Okuno, Shintaro Yuya, Mizuho Nojima Japan 2022 Japanese 116’ Colour

With

  • Kumi Hyodo
  • Minami Ohba
  • Ai Mikami
  • Guama Uchida
  • Tadashi Okuno
  • Shintaro Yuya
  • Mizuho Nojima

Crew

Director Yui Kiyohara
Screenplay Yui Kiyohara
Cinematography Yukiko Iioka
Editing Azusa Yamazaki
Music jon no son
Sound Design Young Chang Hwang
Production Design Shinpei Inoue
Costumes Kei Taguchi
Make-Up Rie Ooya
Assistant Director Satoshi Noboriyama
Production Manager Atsuko Senda
Producer Mayumi Amano

World sales

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Produced by

PFF PARTNERS (Pia/HoriPro Inc./NIKKATSU) /PFF General Incorporated Association

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Yui Kiyohara

Born in Tokyo in 1992. She completed a master’s programme in Directing at the Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts. Our House is her graduation project and her first feature film.

Filmography

2017 Our House; Berlinale Forum, 80 min. 2022 Subete no Yoru wo Omoidasu (Remembering Every Night); 116 min.

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2023