Blue Hour (2019)
Trapped in her anemic career and love relationship, a 30-year-old TV commercial director returns to her countryside home in the company of a free-spirited friend. In a bittersweet reunion with an alienated family, her childhood memories of freedom and yearnings creep in the dreamlike blue hour, transcending into a lyricism of self-realization – at once whimsical, agonizing and yet hopeful.
Director:
Hakota Yuko
Writer:
Hakota Yuko
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Kaho as Yuka Sunada |
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Shim Eun-kyung as Asami Kiyoura |
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Kaho Minami as Sunada's Mother |
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Daichi Watanabe as Sunada's Husband |
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Denden as Sunada's Father |
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Daisuke Kuroda as Sunada's Brother |
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Yusuke Santamaria as Togashi |
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Kyusaku Shimada as The Star |
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Sairi Ito as |
| Art | Shinpei Inoue | Production Design |
| Directing | Hakota Yuko | Director |
| Editing | Daisuke Imai | Editor |
| Writing | Hakota Yuko | Screenplay |
| Production | Hideki Hoshino | Producer |
| Production | 原田浩行 | Producer's Assistant |
| Sound | Takeshi Ogawa | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Shoji Ikenaga | Music Supervisor |
| Camera | Tatsuo Kondoh | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Keiko Shinozaki | Music Producer |
| Directing | Shinji Kuma | Assistant Director |
| Lighting | Isamu Fujii | Gaffer |
| Production | Masunobu Motokawa | Casting Director |
| Production | Atsushi Mabuchi | Line Producer |
| Production | Daisuke Toyama | Development Producer |
| Sound | Nao Matsuzaki | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Nao Matsuzaki | Theme Song Performance |