Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefNishikawa Miwa, the woman filmmaker who is a protégé of Japan’s celebrated “Shoplifters” director Kore-eda Hirokazu, may be about to step out from his shadow.
Her social drama “Under the Open Sky” is set for premiere and a prominent position at the Toronto Intl. Film Festival this month.The film takes as its starting point the release from jail of a middle-aged former gangster.
He may or may not have been harshly treated by the court, but the deeper point is that he has been inside for so long that he is both hardened and friendless in the real world.The body of the film chronicles his multiple, frustrating attempts to comprehend not just society, but what should be his position in it.
Read more on variety.com