遙遠的地方（日本/2022/劇情）
A FAR SHORE (JAPAN/2022/DRAMA)
TOOI TOKORO
語言：日語、沖繩語
Language: Japanese, Okinawan
劇情簡介
高中輟學的Aoi和丈夫Masaya育有一個幼子，兩人都是沖繩本地人。為了維持生計，她開始在夜店當女服務生。失業的Masaya無法承擔家庭責任，不成熟的兩人互相依賴，使得關係更加惡化，日夜不停的爭執造成生活危機。為了兒子，Aoi走上了尋找解決方案的道路。
導演/編劇：工藤將亮
製片：來河侑希
製作公司：Allen production
演員：花瀨琴音(《鈴芽之旅》)，石田夢実，佐久間祥朗，長谷川月
獎項：
工藤將亮
• 2022年東京FILMeX影展最佳影片大獎入圍
• 2022年東京FILMeX影展觀眾票選獎
• 2022年卡羅維瓦利國際電影節水晶球獎最佳影片入圍
影評：
• 工藤將亮拍出一部溝口健二式的現代悲劇（傑西卡江）
• 以沖繩為背景的動人故事（黛博拉楊，The Film Verdict）
• 一部動人的賣座片，充滿詩意（梅雷迪絲泰勒，Filmuforia）
• 描述特定社會階層年輕女性所面臨的問題，寫實而具有衝擊力，非常值得在戲院觀賞。 （傑瑞米 C，Processing）
• 工藤將亮的作品以細膩方式找到正確的切入點，甜蜜中帶著苦澀，黑暗裡蘊含著溫暖，矛盾無所不在，直到最後的結局。（尼古拉巴多，Le Polyester）
• 日本導演工藤將亮以沖繩為背景，同情地看著一個育有幼兒的17歲夜店女服務生如何一步步走上賣淫業。
• 這是一部切題的當代故事，描寫一名年輕女性奮力克服困難，探討了兩性不平等和女性賦權等主題。
• 杉村高之的攝影展現出活力和能量，少了嚴峻的社會批判，甚至在最不堪的時刻也帶來強烈感人、甚至奮不顧身的狂喜。
Synopsis
Aoi has dropped out of high school and gives birth to a baby son with her husband Masaya. They live in Okinawa, the Southern island of Japan where they were both born. To make ends meet, she starts working as a night-club hostess. Masaya loses his job and cannot deal with the family’s responsibilities. Their immaturity and dependence aggravate the relationship and continuous fights lead to a social downfall. Aoi’s bond with her son sets her on a path to find solutions.
Director/Writer: Masaaki Kudo
Producer: Yuki Kitagawa
Production Co: Allen production
Cast: Kotone Hanase, Yumemi Ishida, Yoshiro Sakuma, Tsuki Hasegawa
Awards:
Massaki Kudo
• Best Film Nominee, Grand Prize, Tokyo FILMeX, 2022.
• Audience Award, Tokyo FILMeX, 2022.
• Best Film Nominee, Crystal Globe, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, 2022.
Reviews:
• Masaaki Kudo’s affectingly Mizoguchian modern-day tragedy – Jessica Kiang, Variety.
• A heart-felt story set in Okinawa – Deborah Young, The Film Verdict
• An emotional blockbuster full of poetry and lyricism – Meredith Taylor, Filmuforia.
• As a slice-of-life look at the problems facing young women in a certain social strata, this packs an undeniable punch and deserves to be screen. – Jeremy C. Processing
• Masaaki Kudo’s film, remarkably delicate, finds the right point of view to be as sweet as it is bitter, as dark as it is warm; enriching contradictions that we find until the ending. Nicolas Bardot, Le Polyester
• Japanese director Masaaki Kudo turns a compassionate eye on a 17-year-old nightclub hostess with a toddler, sent skidding toward prostitution in a heart-felt story set on Okinawa.
• The timely contemporary tale taps into themes of gender inequality and female empowerment through an intimate portrait of a young woman battling to keep her head above water against the odds.
• Takayuki Sugimura’s photography displays a vibrancy and energy that belies the grim social critique, and can sometimes halo even the most sordid moments in an intensely moving, if desperate kind of exhilaration.
