In Competition " LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE " Directed by: Abbas KIAROSTAMI Country: FRANCE, JAPAN Year: 2012 Duration: 109.00 minutes Credits: Abbas KIAROSTAMI - Director Abbas KIAROSTAMI - Screenplay Katsumi YANAGIJIMA - Cinematography Bahman KIAROSTAMI - Film Editor Mohamadreza DELPAK - Sound Nobuyuki KIKUCHI - Sound Actors: Rin TAKANASHI - Akiko Tadashi OKUNO - Takashi Ryo KASE - Noriaki Synopsis: An old man and a young woman meet in Tokyo. She knows nothing about him, he thinks he knows her. He welcomes her into his home, she offers him her body. But the web that is woven between them in the space of twenty four hours bears no relation to the circumstances of their encounter. *** Un vieil homme et une jeune femme se rencontrent à Tokyo. Elle ne sait rien de lui, lui croit la connaître. Il lui ouvre sa maison, elle lui propose son corps. Mais rien de ce qui se tisse entre eux en l’espace de vingt-quatre heures ne tient aux circonstances de leur rencontre. Rin Takanashi Born in 1988, Rin Takanashi started her activity as an actress with Goth in 2008. In 2009 she played in Samurai Sentai Shinkenger, an action TV series where she featured as one of the main characters. Her next feature film is Is There Anyone Alive? directed by Gakuryu Ishii. Her other works are TV drama Space Dog Strategy, O Parts, Papador and some more. This year she has also played in Today, Love Will Start directed by Ken Furusawa, scheduled to be released in December 2012. Ryo Kase Born in Kanawaga in 1974, Ryo Kase lived in Washington until the age of seven. His cinema career began in 2000 in the legendary action film Gojoe by Sogo Ishii and in the comedy Party 7 by Katsuhito Ishii. In 2001 he went on to act in Godzilla, Mothra And King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack by Shusuke Kaneko. Ryo Kase has since been in over 40 films, as well on television and in advertisements. Most of his films have never made it to European cinemas. Films such as Antena by Kazuyoshi Kumakiri (2004), Scrap Heaven by Sang-il Lee (2005), I Just Didn’t Do It by Masayuki Suo (2006) and The Invitation From Cinema Orion by Kenki Saegusa (2008). However, the French cinema-going public discovered him in 2001 in the romantic comedy Hush by Ryosuke Hashiguchi and later in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s dramas Jellyfish (2003) and Retribution (2007), in Nobody Knows (2004) and Hana Yori Mo Naho (2006) by Hirokazu Kore-eda, The Taste of Tea by Katsuhito Ishii (2004), and in Outrage by Takeshi Kitano (2010). Kase has also had parts in international films such as The Passenger by François Rotger (2005). He played the part of Shimizu in Clint Eastwood’s film Letters from Iwo Jima (2006). He did the voice-over for one of the characters in The Sky Crawlers by Mamoru Oshii (2008). He is a ghost in Restless by Gus Van Sant (2011) and Akira in Interior Design, Michel Gondry’s segment in the film Tokyo! (2008).
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