Japan’s Nikkatsu Selling ‘River’ Fantasy and Sexy ‘S-Friends’ at TIFFCOM Market

variety.com:

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Japan’s Nikkatsu studio is pitching “River” at the top of its TIFFCOM sales slate. The film – on which it shares rights with Third Window Films – is a time loop comedy from Yamaguchi Junta, director of “Beyond The Infinite Two Minutes.” The one-hundred-year-old Fujiya inn stands in a quiet region of Kyoto.

An employee is standing in front of the Kibune river at the back of the building when she is called back to work. But two minutes later, she finds herself back at the river again.

The whole inn seems to be stuck in a time loop! Not only Mikoto, but other staff and guests begin to feel something strange.

Hot sake does not get hot. Rice porridge never gets eaten and there’s a bathroom that is impossible to leave. For all that people can’t move forward, their memories are intact.