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RICE BALL

A father and a son return from the crematory. The father made rice balls for his son, but the shape was also round and big. The son feels a sense of incompatibility with the taste different from rice balls made by his mother. But the son knows the promises his parents kept secret for him. Then the son continued to eat the rice ball filled with the kindness of his father and mother.

  • Yusuke Oishi
    Director
  • Yusuke Oishi
    Writer
  • Yusuke Oishi
    Producer
  • Akihiro Sawaguchi
    Producer
  • Hideo Kurihara
    Key Cast
  • Yusuke Oishi
    Key Cast
  • Yasumi Yajima
    a supporting actress
  • Akihiro Sawaguchi
    Cinematography
  • Ryohei Yoshino
    Sound Engineer
  • Shunpei Ito
    Sound Mixing and Musical Score
  • Mariko Kojima
    Makeup
  • Stuart J Walton
    English Subtitles by
  • Akihiro Sawaguchi
    Film Editor
  • Hiroaki kawazu
    Assistant Director
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Drama
  • Runtime:
    15 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    April 5, 2017
  • Production Budget:
    150,000 JPY
  • Country of Origin:
    Japan
  • Country of Filming:
    Japan
  • Language:
    Japanese
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • 41st Cleveland International Film Festival
    Cleveland
    United States
    April 5, 2017
    World Premiere
  • ALL LIGHTS INDIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2017
    Hyderabad
    India
    December 1, 2017
    India Premiere
  • Tsurukawa Short Movie Contest 2017
    Tokyo
    Japan
    December 3, 2017
    Japan Premiere
    Audience Award
  • The 20th San Francisco Independent Film Festival
    San Francisco
    United States
    February 11, 2018
    West Coast Premiere
  • The 66th Columbus International Film & Animation Festival
    Columbus
    United States
    March 23, 2018
  • The 9th Love Story Film Festival
    Tokyo
    Japan
    April 7, 2018
  • The 22nd Kansas City Filmfest
    Kansas City
    United States
    April 14, 2018
    Missouri Premiere
  • 42nd Annual Atlanta Film Festival
    Atlanta
    United States
    April 17, 2018
    Georgia Premiere
  • 13th Annual Japan Film Festival - Los Angeles
    Los Angeles
    United States
    California Premiere
  • 10th Fukuoka Independent Film Festival 2018
    Fukuoka
    Japan
    September 11, 2018
    Official selection
  • Forest Movie Festival 2018
    Tochigi
    Japan
    October 6, 2018
    Official selection
  • 18th Kansas International Film Festival
    Kansas
    アメリカ
    October 17, 2018
    Official selection
  • 8th Annual Guam International Film Festival
    Hagatna
    グアム
    Guam
    Online Select Showcase Official selection
  • The 2nd Shibuya TANPEN Film Festival CLIMAXat Sasebo 2018-19
    Shibuya
    日本
  • The 22nd Toronto reel Asian Film Festival
    Toronto
    カナダ
    November 14, 2018
    Canada Premiere
    Air Canad Award
  • 2018 Erie International Film Festival
    Erie
    アメリカ
    December 13, 2018
    Pennsylvania Premiere
    Official selection
  • Damah International Film Festival

    日本
    May 10, 2019
    Official selection
Director Biography - Yusuke Oishi

Yusuke started his career as an actor since 2002. He acted in more than hundred Independent films, and also in drama series, commercials and so on. One of his film "Happo-en" was nominated for the official selection for the short film competition of the 67th Cannes Film Festival. He worked as a leading actor and a producer of the film named "Bifurcation", which he made the original plan of. It had special screening for the 38th Outdoor Short Film Festival of Grenoble. His first director's film "RICE BALL", was world premiered at the 41st Cleveland International Film Festival. After that, it is also screened at domestic and international film festivals.

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Director Statement

I choose “onigiri” (it means riceballs in Japanese) as my motive for this film because it's Japanese unique food culture. Each family may have their own memories related to onigiri,especially it reminds us of mother or wife.
The theme of this story is onigiri, and also father and son who lost their family.
They respect each other as a father and as a son to get over the pain of loss.