Sea's Lid

Umi no futa, feature film, drama, Japan, 2015

DIRECTED BY: Keisuke Toyoshima

Sea's Lid

CAST:
Akiko Kikuchi (Mari),
Azusa Mine (Hajime),
Yukichi Kobayashi (Osamu),
Orime Amagi,
Keiichi Suzuki

SCRIPT:
Hisako Kurosawa (based on novel by Banana Yoshimoto)

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Yoshihisa Toda

Synopsis:

Mari decides to leave Kyoto where she works as a set designer and returns to her hometown on the coast. She dreams of opening a shop where she will sell her favorite sweets from childhood: ice cubes made of syrup called kakigōri. A teenager Hajime helps her with the preparation of ingredients and with the decoration of the shop before the grand opening. 

color, digital, 84 min

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