37 Seconds
Panorama 2019
JPN 2019
by: HIKARI
Misuzu Kanno, Mei Kayama
37 Seconds
Panorama 2019
JPN 2019
by: HIKARI
Mei Kayama, Shunsuke Daito
37 Seconds
Panorama 2019
JPN 2019
by: HIKARI
Mei Kayama, Ciccone, Sugar・Lu, Bouillabaisse
37 Seconds
Panorama 2019
JPN 2019
by: HIKARI
Feb 7, 2019HIKARI, Dieter Kosslick, Mei Kayama
The director of the film 37 Seconds HIKARI (top right) with her protagonist Mei Kayama (bottom left), Dieter Kosslick (bottom right) and other members of the cast at the Opening Gala.
Panorama – 37 Seconds – Opening Gala
Feb 9, 2019Misuzu Kanno,Mei Kayama, HIKARI, Shunsuke Daitō
The director among her actors at the Photo Call.
Panorama – 37 Seconds
Feb 16, 2019Group picture
The Jury of the CICAE („Confédération Internationale des Cinémas D´Art et Essai") Art Cinema Award in the section Panorama - Matthias Damm, Tanja Helm and Elaheh Godarzi - with the winners, the director HIKARI and the producer Shin Yamaguchi.
Panorama – 37 Seconds – Prizes of the Independent Juries
Feb 16, 2019Shin Yamaguchi, HIKARI
The editor and the director of the film that has been awarded with the CICAE Art Cinema Award.
Panorama – 37 Seconds – Prizes of the Independent Juries
Yuma is a 23-year-old woman from Tokyo. When she commutes by train to her job in a manga studio, her face is at hip height to the other passengers standing up. Yuma uses a wheelchair on account of cerebral palsy. Her deformed limbs only allow her to crawl – and to hold a pencil. The fact that her boss, a successful comic artist and blogger named Sayaka, who has a penchant for garish Fairy Kei attire, passes Yuma’s drawing ideas off as her own, dismays the talented ‘mangaka’. Even worse, her overprotective mother hardly lets her out of her sight and refuses to talk about her father. As Yuma attempts to live a more independent life, she stumbles across adult comics – manga porn – and toys with the idea of drawing some herself. The publisher advises her to gain some personal experience first. But what happens when a woman in a wheelchair asks a tout in Tokyo’s red light district to fix her up with a sex date?
Director HIKARI’s humorous and endearing 37 Seconds depicts an unusual journey of self-discovery - in artistic, physical and familial terms. And, as the film’s charming protagonist learns, friends who are not prejudiced can be found anywhere.
by
HIKARI
Japan 2019
Japanese
115’ · Colour
World premiere
Mei Kayama (Yuma Takada)Misuzu Kanno (Kyoko Takada)Shunsuke Daitō (Toshiya)Makiko Watanabe (Mai)Minori Hagiwara (Sayaka)Haruka Imou (Yuka)Kiyohiko Shibukawa (Pimp)Eita Okuno (Hide)Toshinori Omi (Shota)Yuka Itaya (Fujimoto)
Born in Osaka, Japan, she studied film and TV production at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Her graduation film, the short Tsuyako, screened at over 100 festivals worldwide and received 50 awards. A Better Tomorrow premiered at Cannes in 2013 and her short dance film, Where We Begin, also won several international prizes.
Filmography2011 Tsuyako; short film 2013 A Better Tomorrow; short film 2014 Can & Sulochan; short film 2015 Where We Begin; short film
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2019
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