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Yasukawa Yuka Continues Exploration of Women’s Societal Issues in Tokyo Festival’s ‘Nighthawk’

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Mark Schilling Japan CorrespondentYasukawa Yuka is one of two Japanese directors with films in the Asian Future section for up-and-coming Asian filmmakers.

Her romantic drama “The Nighthawk’s First Love,” is based on Naoki Prize-winner Shimamoto Rio’s 2013 novel about a college student with a facial birthmark that made her a target of bullying as a child and sapped her confidence as a woman.

Then a book partly based her life becomes a movie – and she falls for its director, but her feelings are not reciprocated.“I was fascinated by the charm of the heroine, Aiko, who wants to affirm herself, despite her birthmark, in a society with distorted beauty values,” Yasukawa said in a statement. “By the time I finished reading the book, I strongly.

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