Naoki Segi

Yokkaichi, Japan, 1963

 

Director

Segi is a Japanese director who directed his first film Saka no ue no Maria in 2001. Since then he has directed nine more films. Some of them are The Thousand Year Fire (Sennenbi, 2004), Watch with Me: Sotsugyou shiashin (2007), Râmen samurai (2011) and Karaage Usa (2014). He is currently finishing his last film Mother Lake (2016).

Filmography


Films by this director

Karaage USA

(Japan, 2014)

Directed by: Naoki Segi
PHOTOGRAPHY: Yuji Imai
Synopsis:

Karaage is a name for specific Japanese food deep-fried in oil. Also popular are the karaage fast food restaurants that first appeared in the town Usa in Oita prefecture in Japan. This is the hometown of Ayane, one of the daughters of an owner of such popular restaurant. She has never been interested in the family business and left home five years ago. Suddenly she comes back to her hometown together with a girl named Shirley, her ex-husband’s daughter. 

color, digital, 95 min
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