Stars: Tsubasa Nakagawa, Itsuki Nagasawa, Rina Ikoma, Taro Suruga, Toshiro Yanagiba | Written by Yoichi Narita, Yu Sakudo | Directed by Yoichi Narita
Fantasia Festival has been helping me out this year with it’s range and variety of coming-of-age movies. Follow The Light adds some sci-fi to a terrifically written and original coming-of-age story.
Follow The Light starts off a bit slow but in truth this is a slow paced movie. I’d even use the word calm because that’s how I felt while watching much of the movie. It tackles several issues (more on those later) but in this kind of relaxed way. It’s not an experience I’ve had very often with films but it’s a welcome one.
Shy school kid Akira moves with his dad to the Japanese countryside and a school that is about to be closed for good. After seeing Maki, a mysterious...
Fantasia Festival has been helping me out this year with it’s range and variety of coming-of-age movies. Follow The Light adds some sci-fi to a terrifically written and original coming-of-age story.
Follow The Light starts off a bit slow but in truth this is a slow paced movie. I’d even use the word calm because that’s how I felt while watching much of the movie. It tackles several issues (more on those later) but in this kind of relaxed way. It’s not an experience I’ve had very often with films but it’s a welcome one.
Shy school kid Akira moves with his dad to the Japanese countryside and a school that is about to be closed for good. After seeing Maki, a mysterious...
- 8/26/2021
- by Alain Elliott
- Nerdly
The dying out of a number of rural areas in Japan, due to the declining birthrate, the aging population and the intense urbanization that has always characterized the country, has been a significant issue for decades now, as the agricultural sector keeps declining. Yoichi Narita places his story in such an area, also adding a personal experience of his, concerning a green light and crop circle that appeared in his hometown in 1991.
“Follow the Light” is Screening at Fantasia International Film Festival
The location is the fictitious Uguisudani in Akita, whose livelihood is tied to growing rice. Due to the aforementioned issues however, the sole middle school in town will close at the end of the school year, a decision that lays heavily on both students and parents. Akira Nakajima has returned to the area from Tokyo, along with his father, Ryota, after his failed music career led to a hard divorce,...
“Follow the Light” is Screening at Fantasia International Film Festival
The location is the fictitious Uguisudani in Akita, whose livelihood is tied to growing rice. Due to the aforementioned issues however, the sole middle school in town will close at the end of the school year, a decision that lays heavily on both students and parents. Akira Nakajima has returned to the area from Tokyo, along with his father, Ryota, after his failed music career led to a hard divorce,...
- 8/26/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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