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Mountain Woman

Horizons 2023 / Yama onna / Japan, USA 2022

Mountain Woman Mountain Woman

Synopsis

Rin is a young woman growing up during a time of famine. There is so little food that her village cannot afford to welcome any newcomers, including newborn children. Her family is one of the last in the village, and their lives thus depend on remaining obedient to those who control the last kernels of grain. Rin’s only consolation comes from an alliance with the gods of the wilderness looking down on this human suffering. The period film’s impressive wide shots of nature truly bring to life and radiate with supernatural forces, thus intertwining the story’s balladic aspects with its more realistic line.

Vít Kořínek

About the film

98 min / Color, DCP

Director Takeshi Fukunaga / Screenplay Takeshi Fukunaga, Ikue Osada / Dir. of Photography Daniel Satinoff / Music Alex Zhang Hungtai / Sound Sung Rok Choi / Editor Christopher Makoto Yogi / Art Director Yoko Sagae / Producer Eric Nyari / Production Cineric Creative / Coproduction Booster Project / Cast Anna Yamada, Masatoshi Nagase, Mirai Moriyama, Ryutaro Ninomiya, Toko Miura / Sales Cineric Creative
www: www.yamaonna-movie.com

About the director

Takeshi Fukunaga

Takeshi Fukunaga (1982, Date, Hokkaido). Filmography: The Hole in the Sky (2007, short), K (2009, short), hItec! 2011 (2011, short), Out of My Hand (2015), Ainu Mosir (Ainu moshiri, 2020), Mountain Woman (Yama onna, 2022).

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Cineric Creative
630 Ninth Avenue Suite 508, 100 36, New York
United States of America
E-mail: [email protected]

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