The main competition film "Snow Girl" tokyo debut Aoki Takato Sugi no Yoshihito

Sugino (left) with the creator

The 1905 film "Snow Girl", directed and starring Sugino, was unveiled at the 29th Tokyo International Film Festival on October 28, local time, and has been widely concerned on the eve of the release of one of the two Japanese films in the main competition unit this year. After the screening, Sugino attended the meeting with the main actors Takashi Aoki, Mayo Yamaguchi and Shiro Sano.

Sugino appeared at the 24th Tokyo International Film Festival as the protagonist of the special edition of "Sugino's Asian Independent Film Muse", sushino herself in addition to being an actress, also as a director, producer and other positions, is also a very rare filmmaker in the industry. This new work is based on the eponymous chapter in Koizumi Yakumo's Strange Talk and gives a new explanation.

When asked about the origin of the film work, Sugino replied, "I read this story about 3 years ago and was fascinated by the beauty of the story. I wonder if I added a little bit of my own explanation, it would be a film that makes sense even in modern times. During filming, he said 'card' while acting, and then ran to the monitor to confirm how everyone was acting, and conducted such a homework trial in order to seek objectivity. ”

Takashi Aoki, who played the role of the opponent, smiled bitterly: "We are all very hard." As an actor and she acted opposite, just in front of her eyes to be shouted 'card', that feeling is indeed unusual. However, Aoki Takashi did praise sugino's talent as a director: "Sugino's talent can be said to be a three-tasker, one by one, all of whom rely on their own 'greed' to bring their works to the film festival, yes, I just want to work with such people." 」 I am honored to be able to star in Snow Girl together. ”

In this year's main competition section, another Japanese film starring Yu Aoi is "The Whereabouts of Haruko Azumi", and this time the two Japanese films are expected to win the final Tokyo Grand Prize for the third time in 11 years after "Wishing for Snow". In addition, "Snow Girl" will be released nationwide in Japan on March 4 next year.