Archive of films Far Shore / Tooi tokoro
Japan
2022, 128 min
Section:
Crystal Globe Competition
Year: 2022
An unadorned perspective on impoverished life in Okinawa. 17-year-old Aoi works as a nightclub hostess in order to earn rent money and to provide for her little boy and his lazy father, who has no qualms about hitting his wife. Yet how dark does reality have to get before it stifles the rays of hope that filter through?
Synopsis
An unadorned perspective on impoverished life in Okinawa, an island in southern Japan whose modern history was tainted by the bloody battle for the Pacific. 17-year-old Aoi works as a nightclub hostess in order to earn rent money and to provide for her little boy. She also supports her lazy husband Masaya, who has no qualms about giving her a few slaps, particularly after he loses his job. What chance does this young family have to scrape their way out of the social mire, where they were driven by poverty and the imprudence of youth? How dark does reality have to get before it stifles the rays of hope that filter through? An intimate story that presents a less glitzy picture of Japan than is customary, demonstrating that social inequality impacts all corners of the globe.
Martin Horyna
About the director

Masaaki Kudo (1983, Kyoto, Japan). Filmography: I’m Crazy (2017), Unprecedented (2021), A Far Shore (Tooi tokoro, 2022).
Contacts
Alpha Violet
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France
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Publicity contact
Hannah Farr
United Kingdom
E-mail: [email protected]
About the film
Color, DCP
World premiere
Section: | Crystal Globe Competition |
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Director: | Masaaki Kudo |
Screenplay: | Masaaki Kudo, Mami Suzuki |
Dir. of Photography: | Takayuki Sugimura |
Music: | Masamichi Shigeno |
Sound: | Keefar |
Editor: | Chen Shih Ting, Masaaki Kudo |
Art Director: | Ran Kobayashi |
Producer: | Yuki Kitagawa |
Production: | ALLEN Inc. |
Coproduction: | THE FOOL Inc. |
Cast: | Kotone Hanase, Yumemi Ishida |
Sales: | Alpha Violet |
Contact: | Hannah Farr |
Guests

Masaaki Kudo
Film Director

Kotone Hanase
Actress

Yumemi Ishida
Actress

Yoshiro Sakuma
Actor

Yuki Kitagawa
Producer

Shunsuke Koga
Co-producer

Hannah Farr
Publicist