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OUR LITTLE SISTER (UMIMACHI DIARY) (Past Film)
DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, BRAZIL
 
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Completed - JAPANESE - Drama, Family - 128 minutes

Log Line

When three young women invite their shy teenage half-sister to live with them, a new life of joyful discovery begins for all four siblings...

Year of production : 2014

Director(s) : Hirokazu KORE-EDA
Writer(s) : Hirokazu KORE-EDA
Cast : Haruka AYASE, Masami NAGASAWA, KAHO, Suzu HIROSE

Producer(s) : Matsuzaki KAORU, Taguchi HIJIRI

Synopsis

Three sisters - Sachi, Yoshino and Chika - live together in a large house in the city of Kamakura. When their father - absent from the family home for the last 15 years - dies, they travel to the countryside for his funeral, and meet their shy teenage half-sister. Bonding quickly with the orphaned Suzu, they invite her to live with them. Suzu eagerly agrees, and a new life of joyful discovery begins for the four siblings...

After Like Father, Like Son (Jury Prize, Cannes FF) and Nobody Knows (Best Actor Prize, Cannes FF) Kore-eda Hirokazu returns with another sensitive and poetic tale of love and family ties.

Production

Country(ies) : JAPAN

AUSTRIA STADTKINO FILMV
BELGIUM LUMIÈRE (GHENT)
BRAZIL IMOVISION
CANADA MÉTROPOLE FILMS
COLOMBIA BABILLA CINE
CZECH REPU FILM EUROPE (CZ
DENMARK CAMERA FILM A/S
FRANCE Oct 28, 2015 LE PACTE
GERMANY Dec 17, 2015 PANDORA FILM GM
HONG KONG ENCORE INFLIGHT
HONG KONG EDKO FILMS LTD
ISRAEL LEV CINEMAS LTD
ITALY Jan 01, 2016 BIM DISTRIBUZIO
JAPAN GAGA CORPORATIO
KOREA (Sou TCAST CO., LTD.
MEXICO MANTARRAYA PROD
NETHERLAND LUMIÈRE (AMSTER
POLAND GUTEK FILM LTD
ROMANIA INDEPENDENTA FI
SPAIN GOLEM DISTRIBUC
SWEDEN Feb 26, 2016 TRIART FILM
SWITZERLAN TRIGON-FILM
TAIWAN CATCHPLAY, INC.
USA PALMERA INTERNA


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Festivals and Awards

Festival de Cannes 2015 Competition
Toronto - TIFF 2015 Masters


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