Works

HOTARU / Firefly (2000)

Fiction Feature

2000/164 min/35mm

Emotionally withdrawn strip club dancer Ayako has never recovered from her mother's suicide when she was young. She begins a relationship with patient potter Daiji, but leaves him behind when she quits her job and returns to her home town after a 10 year absence.

Award / Invitation

FIPREPSCI, Festival del film Locarno, 2000
Best Actress Award for Yuko NAKAMURA, BAFICI Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival, 2001

Crews & Productions

Writer/Director Naomi Kawase
World Sales Wild Bunch

Cast

Yuko NAKAMURA
Toshiya NAGASAWA
Miyako YAMAGUCHI
Toshiyuki KITAMI
Ken MITSUISHI