Directed by:
HIKARIScreenplay:
HIKARIComposer:
Aska MatsumiyaCast:
Mei Kayama, Makiko Watanabe, Shunsuke Daitô, Yuka Itaya, 神野三鈴, Haruka Imô, Minori Hagiwara, Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Eita Okuno, 宇野祥平, 石橋静河, Toshinori Omi (more)VOD (1)
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Yuma is a 23-year-old woman from Tokyo. When she commutes by train to her job in a manga studio, her face is at hip height to the other passengers standing up. Yuma uses a wheelchair on account of cerebral palsy. Her deformed limbs only allow her to crawl – and to hold a pencil. The fact that her boss, a successful comic artist and blogger named Sayaka, who has a penchant for garish Fairy Kei attire, passes Yuma’s drawing ideas off as her own, dismays the talented ‘mangaka’. Even worse, her overprotective mother hardly lets her out of her sight and refuses to talk about her father. As Yuma attempts to live a more independent life, she stumbles across adult comics – manga porn – and toys with the idea of drawing some herself. The publisher advises her to gain some personal experience first. But what happens when a woman in a wheelchair asks a tout in Tokyo’s red light district to fix her up with a sex date? Director HIKARI’s humorous and endearing 37 Seconds depicts an unusual journey of self-discovery - in artistic, physical and familial terms. And, as the film’s charming protagonist learns, friends who are not prejudiced can be found anywhere. (Berlinale)
(more)Cast
Mei Kayama
Best movies:
37 Seconds (2019)
Makiko Watanabe
Japan
Best movies:
Love Exposure (2008)
37 Seconds (2019)
Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning (2021)
Shunsuke Daitô
Japan
Best movies:
Crows-Zero (2007)
37 Seconds (2019)
Crows Zero II (2009)
Yuka Itaya
Japan
Best movies:
A Stranger of Mine (2005)
37 Seconds (2019)
Sad Vacation (2007)
神野三鈴
Japan
Best movies:
37 Seconds (2019)
Haruka Imô
Japan
Best movies:
37 Seconds (2019)
Ox-Head Village (2022)
Minori Hagiwara
Japan
Best movies:
37 Seconds (2019)
The Girl in the Sun (2013)
Kiyohiko Shibukawa
Japan
Best movies:
Hanging Garden (2005)
Crows-Zero (2007)
Blue Spring (2001)
Eita Okuno
Japan
Best movies:
37 Seconds (2019)
Your Eyes Tell (2020)
If Cats Disappeared from the World (2016)
宇野祥平
Japan
Best movies:
The Great Passage (2013)
37 Seconds (2019)
Snowy Love Fall in Spring (2005)
石橋静河
Japan
Best movies:
37 Seconds (2019)
Tezuka's Barbara (2019)
The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue (2017)
Toshinori Omi
Japan
Best movies:
The Triumphant Return of General Rouge (2009)
The Twilight Samurai (2002)
I Just Didn't Do It (2006)
Takashi Kawaguchi
Best movies:
37 Seconds (2019)
Kōdai Saitō
Japan
Best movies:
37 Seconds (2019)