Translucent Tree

Toukou no ki, feature film, 2004.

DIRECTED BY: Kichitaro Negishi

Translucent Tree

CAST:
Kumiko Akiyoshi (Chigiri Yamazaki),
Toshiyuki Nagashima (Go Imai),
Michiko Koga (mlada Chigiri Yamazaki),
Masaya Takahashi (Kaho Yamazaki)

SCRIPT:
Yôzô Tanaka (prema romanu Nobuko Takagi)

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Kôichi Kawakami

Synopsis:
After a divorce, the middle-aged Chigiri returns with her daughter to her hometown Tsurugi to take care of her sick father. One day a film producer Go from Tokyo arrives to town, to see the local famous tree. Twenty years earlier, under that same tree Chigiru and Go were resting after finishing the filming at the set. Back then they felt mutual attraction, which will now, after two decades, be confessed and reconsidered.

color, 35 mm, 121 min