Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
GIFT
Edition 2023
80'
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2023
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Drama
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Dialogue:
no dialogue
Director:
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Composer:
Eiko Ishibashi
With:
Hitoshi Omika, Ayaka Shibutani, Ryûji Kosaka
Japanese composer Eiko Ishibashi will present her new project GIFT: involving her live performance and brand-new film by Japanese director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi.
A world premiere at this year’s Film Fest Gent and VIDEODROOM! Japanese composer Eiko Ishibashi will present her new project GIFT: involving her live performance and a brand-new film by Japanese director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, whose previous film - Drive My Car, also with music by Ishibashi - won the Oscar for Best International Film. She returns to the WSA this year, where her music will be performed live by Brussels Philharmonic. The duo’s new collaboration is a silent film completely supported
by Ishibashi’s dynamic live performance. GIFT evolved in
conjunction with Hamaguchi’s latest feature film, Evil Does
Not Exist, which provided the source material for the silent
film in GIFT.
In GIFT we follow Takumi and his daughter who lead a
modest life in the village in the middle of nature. One
day Takumi receives word that there are plans to build
a glamping site near his home. The discovery that
wastewater will be piped into the village’s water source not
only causes unrest among the residents, but also affects
Takumi’s life.
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Credits
Director
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Composer
Eiko Ishibashi
With
Hitoshi Omika, Ayaka Shibutani, Ryûji Kosaka
Scenario
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Director of Photography
Yoshio Kitagawa
Producer
Satoshi Takada
Production studios
Fictive, NEOPA
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Dialogue
no dialogue
Countries of production
Japan
Year
2023
Filmography
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Like Nothing Happened (2003), Solaris (2007), Passion (2008), Eien ni kimi wo aisu (2009), The Depths (2010), Intimacies (2012), The Sound of Waves (2012), Touching the Skin of Eeriness (2013), Voices from the Waves: Shinchimachi (2013), Voices from the Waves: Kesennuma (2013), Storytellers (2013), Happy Hour (2015), Heaven Is Still Far Away (2016), Asako I & II (2018), Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021), Drive My Car (2021), Evil Does Not Exist (2023), GIFT (2023)
