Manabu Oda – studied at the Nikkatsu Visual Arts Academy, winning a prize for his short graduation work ‘Futarinori’ at the Yasujiro Ozu Memorial Tateshina-kogen Film Festival in 2003, the centennial of Ozu’s birth. Oda won the Gemstone Award at the 36th Pia Film Festival for ‘Neo Peach Boy’ (2013). His Pia Scholarship work ‘Simon & Tada Takashi’ marks his feature debut.
‘Saimon & Tada Takashi’ – Saimon and Takashi are best friends in their senior year at the industrial high school. Saimon will go on to university, but Takashi is slated to take over his father’s motor repair shop. Takashi is always falling in love with girls at school, but inevitably end up with a broke heart, so he turn to Saimon for advice. Takashi never suspects that Saimon actually has feelings for him, even when he tags along on a bus trip that becomes an unexpected adventure.
The interview was conducted during...
‘Saimon & Tada Takashi’ – Saimon and Takashi are best friends in their senior year at the industrial high school. Saimon will go on to university, but Takashi is slated to take over his father’s motor repair shop. Takashi is always falling in love with girls at school, but inevitably end up with a broke heart, so he turn to Saimon for advice. Takashi never suspects that Saimon actually has feelings for him, even when he tags along on a bus trip that becomes an unexpected adventure.
The interview was conducted during...
- 1/19/2019
- by Nikodem Karolak
- AsianMoviePulse
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