2023 - 68th Edition
Official section - Short films

Howling

Aya Kawazoe
Japan
 - 2023
National premiere

«The face of my younger brother upon his death was my own». Shusaku Aota sees himself in the face of his deceased brother. Distant howling that comes from an unknown location. His younger brother’s memories. His bedridden pupil Kaoru Nogi appears out of thin air. «It’s me, after all». Shusaku loses sight of where he stands, where he is, where he exists.

DIRECTOR
Aya Kawazoe
SCREENPLAY
Aya Kawazoe
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Lizhi Zhu
EDITOR
Jing Don
SOUND
Naru Sakamoto, Nobuhiko Hayashi
MUSIC
Nobuhiko Hayashi
PRODUCTION
Ling Fang
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Graduate School of Film and New Media Tokyo University of the Art
CAST
Kaoru Iida, Sion Sasaki, Sizuru Takada, Takuji Suzuki, Yo Takahashi
RUNNING TIME
23 min.
TYPE
Cortometraje
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
2023
VERSION
O.V. in Japanese with English and Spanish subtitles.
COUNTRY
Japan
CONTACT
Aya Kawazoe

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