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HARUKO’S PARANORMAL LABORATORY (HARUKO CHOUJYOUGENSHOU KENKYUJYO)
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Completed - JAPANESE - Black comedy, Second film - 74 minutes

Log Line

An absurd SF black comedy about a broken family.

Previous markets

  • Cannes 2015 (Debut)
  • Toronto 2015 (Line up)
  • Cannes 2016 (Line up)
Full history

Year of production : 2015

Director(s) : Lisa TAKEBA
Writer(s) : Lisa TAKEBA
Cast : Aoi NAKAMURA, Moeka NOZAKI , Fumiyo KOHINATA, Takumi   SAITOH

Synopsis

Haruko the young lady lives alone and talks to TV everyday. She witnessed her father’s affair when she was a teenager. Since then she has been closed to herself to paranormal phenomena and drifted apart from her family. One day, the TV at Haruko’s house turns into human figure and shows his feelings. Haruko is surprised but happy to have the TV man living together with her as a couple. Later the TV man starts to find a job but gets turn away a lot because of his look. At last a producer discovers the TV man’s special skills of speaking 12 languages and make him a TV star at TV language program. Quickly, the TV man becomes much more famous than they expected…

Production

Country(ies) : JAPAN

Festivals and Awards

Rotterdam IFFR 2015 (Tiger Award Competition)
Yubari Fantastic Film Festival 2015


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