10 – 15 de junio 2025

Competición Oficial 2022

Yamabuki

Juichiro Yamasaki | 2022 | 97'

SYNOPSIS

Chang-su, a former equestrian athlete on the South Korean national team, was forced to give up his dream early. He finds himself working in a quarry in the rural town of Minawa in western Japan, where he lives with Minami and her young daughter. Yamabuki, a teenager, begins to organize silent protests that turn into community actions, much to the dismay of her policeman father. The quiet surface of this rural town gradually peels away to reveal frustration and loneliness that, once given voice, begin to connect people.

BIOGRAPHY

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Juichiro Yamasaki

Yamasaki Juichiro (1978, Osaka, Japan) organized a student film festival during his time at university, made a couple of short films and worked as an assistant director. After living in the city for years, he moved to the small mountain village of Okayama where his father was born. There he went to work as a tomato farmer. The Sound of Light (2011), about the life of a farmer in modern times, was his feature film debut. After Sanchu Uprising: Voices at Dawn (2015), Yamabuki (2022) is his third film

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Critical text

Premiered in the official section of the last Rotterdam Festival, Yamabuki is important for two reasons. The first, for being the definitive consecration of its director, the unclassifiable Juichiro Yamasaki. The second, perhaps more important for anyone who comes to this film, is that it is one of the great cinematic events of the season. Starting out from the makings of the costumbrista drama and the well-trodden narrative framework of cross-stories, Yamabuki undertakes a fascinating exploration of emotional and family ties, guilt and redemption, the accepted and the marginalized. Through the stories of a Korean immigrant and a high school student in a small Japanese town, the narrative reveals a series of undercurrents that give it a critical edge and political bite unusual in Japanese cinema today. Nevertheless, despite offering an unkind portrait of the social consensus on which contemporary Japan is built, and touching on taboos such as corruption and the treatment of immigration, Yamabuki does not lose his serene view of the conflicts he raises, nor his empathy for his characters. Shot in glorious 16mm, Yamabuki is a prodigy of sensitivity, aesthetic beauty and narrative power, qualities that explode in its brilliant final stretch, full of mystery and genuine audiovisual poetry. GABRIEL DOMÉNECH

Technical Sheet

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Dirección
Juichiro Yamasaki

Guión
Juichiro Yamasaki

Fotografía
Kenta Tawara

Música
Olivier Deparis

Intérpretes
Kilala Inori, Hisao Kurozumi

Producción
Terutarô Osanaï, Shoko Akamatsu, Atsuto Watanabe, Takeshi Masago, Juichiro Yamasaki»

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