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Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

GIFT

Director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi Composer Eiko Ishibashi Cast Hitoshi Omika, Ayaka Shibutani, Ryûji Kosaka
WSA
Edition 2023
80' - 2023 - Drama - Dialogue: no dialogue
Japanese composer Eiko Ishibashi presented her new project GIFT: involving her live performance and brand-new film by Japanese director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi.
A world premiere at Film Fest Gent and VIDEODROOM! Japanese composer Eiko Ishibashi presented her new project GIFT: involving her live performance and a brand-new film by Japanese director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, whose previous film - Drive My Car, also with music by Ishibashi - won the Oscar for Best International Film. She returns to the WSA, where her music was performed live by Brussels Philharmonic. The duo’s collaboration was a silent film completely supported by Ishibashi’s dynamic live performance. GIFT evolved in conjunction with Hamaguchi’s latest feature film, Evil Does Not Exist, which provided the source material for the silent film in GIFT. In GIFT we follow Takumi and his daughter who lead a modest life in the village in the middle of nature. One day Takumi receives word that there are plans to build a glamping site near his home. The discovery that wastewater will be piped into the village’s water source not only causes unrest among the residents, but also affects Takumi’s life.

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Credits

Directors

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Composers

Eiko Ishibashi

Cast

Hitoshi Omika, Ayaka Shibutani, Ryûji Kosaka

Scenario

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Director of Photography

Yoshio Kitagawa

Producers

Satoshi Takada

Production studios

Fictive, NEOPA

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Dialogue

no dialogue

Subtitles

Intertitles - English

Countries of production

Japan

Year

2023