The Harimaya Bridge is an emotional drama that focuses on Daniel Holder (Ben Guillory), an American who travels to rural Japan to claim some important items belonging to his late son, Mickey Holder (Victor Grant), from whom he was estranged at the time of his death. While there, he learns several secrets his son left behind as an African-American artist living and teaching in Japan. The story takes place in Kochi Prefecture, a deeply rural part of Japan where traditional customs remain strong.
While still so angry by the thought that his own father died in a Japanese prisoner of war camp, Holder travels there to pickup Mickey’s paintings. He’s so blinded by this pent up anger that he plans to lay claim to his son’s artwork even though they were given as gifts to friends and a school. Daniel hesistanly meets his son.s Japanese wife,...
While still so angry by the thought that his own father died in a Japanese prisoner of war camp, Holder travels there to pickup Mickey’s paintings. He’s so blinded by this pent up anger that he plans to lay claim to his son’s artwork even though they were given as gifts to friends and a school. Daniel hesistanly meets his son.s Japanese wife,...
- 11/19/2010
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Earlier this month, a trailer was released for the upcoming film adaptation of Akiko Itoyama’s love story Bakamono.
The story begins in 1999 with 19-year-old Hide (Hiroki Narimiya) meeting a 27-year-old woman named Gakuko (played by former teen idol Yuki Uchida) who takes his virginity. Hide quickly falls in love, and is devastated the following year when Gakuko abruptly informs him that she’s marrying another man.
Hide eventually leaves university and moves to Tokyo where he finds work and a new girlfriend named Shoko (Miho Shiraishi), but his misery leads him to become dependent on alcohol.
Almost 10 years after their first meeting and the youthful love affair which followed, Hide and Gakuko meet again under drastically different circumstances, with each of their lives having been drastically altered by irreparable loss.
The film was directed by Shusuke Kaneko (Death Note, Pride) and will be released in Japan sometime this December.
The story begins in 1999 with 19-year-old Hide (Hiroki Narimiya) meeting a 27-year-old woman named Gakuko (played by former teen idol Yuki Uchida) who takes his virginity. Hide quickly falls in love, and is devastated the following year when Gakuko abruptly informs him that she’s marrying another man.
Hide eventually leaves university and moves to Tokyo where he finds work and a new girlfriend named Shoko (Miho Shiraishi), but his misery leads him to become dependent on alcohol.
Almost 10 years after their first meeting and the youthful love affair which followed, Hide and Gakuko meet again under drastically different circumstances, with each of their lives having been drastically altered by irreparable loss.
The film was directed by Shusuke Kaneko (Death Note, Pride) and will be released in Japan sometime this December.
- 9/20/2010
- Nippon Cinema
Earlier this month, a trailer was released for the upcoming film adaptation of Akiko Itoyama’s love story Bakamono.
The story begins in 1999 with 19-year-old Hide (Hiroki Narimiya) meeting a 27-year-old woman named Gakuko (played by former teen idol Yuki Uchida) who takes his virginity. Hide quickly falls in love, and is devastated the following year when Gakuko abruptly informs him that she’s marrying another man.
Hide eventually leaves university and moves to Tokyo where he finds work and a new girlfriend named Shoko (Miho Shiraishi), but his misery leads him to become dependent on alcohol.
Almost 10 years after their first meeting and the youthful love affair which followed, Hide and Gakuko meet again under drastically different circumstances, with each of their lives having been drastically altered by irreparable loss.
The film was directed by Shusuke Kaneko (Death Note, Pride) and will be released in Japan sometime this December.
The story begins in 1999 with 19-year-old Hide (Hiroki Narimiya) meeting a 27-year-old woman named Gakuko (played by former teen idol Yuki Uchida) who takes his virginity. Hide quickly falls in love, and is devastated the following year when Gakuko abruptly informs him that she’s marrying another man.
Hide eventually leaves university and moves to Tokyo where he finds work and a new girlfriend named Shoko (Miho Shiraishi), but his misery leads him to become dependent on alcohol.
Almost 10 years after their first meeting and the youthful love affair which followed, Hide and Gakuko meet again under drastically different circumstances, with each of their lives having been drastically altered by irreparable loss.
The film was directed by Shusuke Kaneko (Death Note, Pride) and will be released in Japan sometime this December.
- 9/20/2010
- Nippon Cinema
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