Don't Look Back
Doko made mo ikou, feature film, 1999
DIRECTED BY: Akihiko Shiota
CAST:
Yűsaku Suzuki,
Shingo Mizuno,
Yuria Haga,
Yűya Suzuki,
Erina Noto
SCRIPT:
Akihiko Shiota
PHOTOGRAPHY:
Kazuhiro Suzuki
Synopsis:
Ten-year-old Akira (Yusaku Suzuki) and Koichi (Shingo Mizuno) are best friends from school in a Tokyo suburb. In the second half of the year, they change classes and slowly their relationship changes. Akira meets Shuna (Yuya Suzuki), a lonely boy who is a crafty maker of plastic models. Koichi becomes closer with the problematic Samajimo who is a petty thief.
This is an intimate film by Akihiko Shiote about an unsentimental friendship and growing up. Influences by Susumu Hani and Francoisa Truffaut are evident.
color, 75 minuta