Third Window Films have announced Yuya Ishii's SAWAKO DECIDES will be getting a limited theatrical release in UK & Ireland before its fully released on DVD. The movie stars upcoming actress Hikari Mitsushima (Love Exposure) who plays a a depressed office Worker who moves from Tokyo back to her rural home town, Masashi Endo, Kotaro Shiga, Ryu Iwamatsu, and Kira Aihara also star. Great thing about Ishii's work is keeping the spotlight on the characters in amidst various social problems, people who are not discouraged and just get on with life.The movie has just finished a run of the international festival circuit including Berline, London and also Fantasia film festival where it picked of the awards for best film and actress.
Sawako has lived in Tokyo for five years, is working her fifth office job, and is dating her fifth boyfriend, who is also her boss at the office. Her life with Kenichi, her boyfriend, and his daughter from a previous marriage, Kayoko, feels like a "compromise," and she endures each day feeling distressed about her career and love life.
One day, she receives word that her father, Tadao, who runs a freshwater clam processing business in her hometown, has fallen ill. There is a reason why Sawako would rather not go back home so easily, but she reluctantly decides to return at Kenichi's insistence. But Kenichi, who had actually quit his job shortly before Sawako, uses this opportunity to come along with Sawako to her hometown with his daughter in tow.
Thus Sawako's ordeals continue. Still, she takes over her father's clam processing company and begins to work there, though she slowly starts to take charge of the situation and form a new life for herself
SAWAKO DECIDES will be out in UK Cinema's From July 8th.
More Info on the film check out Third Window Films website
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