ARTicle Films
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Japan 2019 / DCP, Colour, 93 min
a 75 year old Japanese book designer Nobuyoshi Kikuchi has devoted his life to design over 15,000 books. The book designer’s job is not only to come up with the outstanding jacket of a book, but also to carefully choose the papers and the fonts, and layout them to create the unique physical book. Each design is inspired by the text in the books, and none of them are the same. Through the lens, we find not only the beauty of fabrication, but also the crisis of physical book’s existence. The director Nanako Hirose, who is an apprentice of Hirokazu Kore-eda, has filmed Mr. Kikuchi for over 3 years to make this film. Nanako hopes that the audience goes to a bookstore after watching this film, and touch and reconnect with books by his or her own hands. This is a film for all the book lovers out there in the world.
NANAKO HIROSE
Born in Kanagawa in 1987, Nanako Hirose graduated from Musashino art University, before joining Hirokazu Kore-eda’s production company Bunbuku in 2011. Nanako began her career as an assistant on Kore-eda’s film LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON (2013), and she also contributed to many more of his films such as GOING MY HOME (2012), OUR LITTLE SISTER (2015) and AFTER THE STORM (2016). Nanako has also provided support to Miwa Nishikawa as a directorial assistant in her latest film THELONG EXCUSE(2016)
Nanako made her directorial debut in 2019 with HIS LOST NAME, a film which she also wrote the original script. The film tells the story of a young man who has a secret and his pseudo parent-and-child relationship with the owner of a carpentry shop. The film premiered at the 23rd Busan International Film Festival and was awarded a special mention at the 19th TOKYO FILMeX.
Japanese
Producer: Eiji Kitahara, Associate Producer Amy Aoyama
Cinematographer: Nanako Hirose Editor: Nanako Hirose
Music: biobiopatata, Tsunekichi Suzuki
