By TAKUJI HOSOMI/ Staff Writer
August 26, 2022 at 07:30 JST
A scene from “Love Life” ((c) 2022 “Love Life” production committee & Comme Des Cinemas)
Koji Fukada’s “Love Life” will be screened at the 79th Venice International Film Festival in the competition for the top Golden Lion award.
The festival is one of the three most prestigious filmfests in the world, along with Berlin and Cannes.
Inspired by a song of the same name by singer-songwriter Akiko Yano, the movie focuses on a married couple who deal with love and life.
Starring Fumino Kimura, Kento Nagayama and Atom Sunada, “Love Life” is scheduled to open on Sept. 9 in Japan.
Fukada, who has now directed nine feature films, received the Jury Prize in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes in 2016 with “Harmonium.”
“Love Life” will be his first film screened at Venice.
The last Japanese film included in the competition section at Venice was Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s “Wife of a Spy,” which won the Silver Lion award for best director in 2020.
Kei Ishikawa’s “A Man” will be screened in the Orizzonti section for cutting-edge films at the festival.
Based on a novel by Keiichiro Hirano, “A Man” is a mystery about love and past experiences that stars Satoshi Tsumabuki, Sakura Ando and Masataka Kubota. It will open on Nov. 18 in Japan.
Ishikawa is returning to the festival for the first time in six years after his “Traces of Sin,” which also stars Tsumabuki," was screened in the same section.
The Venice festival is set to open on Aug. 31 in the northern Italian city, and the winners will be announced on the final day on Sept. 10.
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