BAMY
One day, Fumiko Tashiro runs into Ryota Saeki - an old acquaintance from college - outside the municipal library where she works. Brought together by chance, they find themselves drawn to one another, and before long they are set to get married. They make their preparations for the wedding, envisioning their happy future together. But all the while, Ryota is troubled by his own secret ability to see the dead. He becomes increasingly worn out by his everyday encounters with ghosts. They cause a rupture in his life with Fumiko, which slowly begins to crumble. One day, Ryota meets Sae Kimura, a woman with the same ability as him, who is terrified by the apparitions. Ryota becomes increasingly involved with Sae, as if to run away from his failing relationship with Fumiko, until he wakes up one morning to find his ability gone. Now unable to see the ghosts, Ryota is shocked to realize that he had depended on his traumatic ability all along. He decides to get away from Fumiko, from Sae, from everything. Fumiko too accepts their break-up, and decides to begin a new life. The couple heads towards the breaking point. But the miracle, once set in motion, is not going to allow them to part ways.
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Jun TanakaDirector
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Jun TanakaWriter
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Takuya TobiyamaProducer
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Hironobu YukinagaKey Cast
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Hiromi NakazatoKey Cast
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Misaki TsugeKey Cast
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Toshi YanagiKey Cast
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Yuki KatsuragiKey Cast
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Hideaki AraiDirector of Photograghy
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Takashi WatanabeLighting
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Taiki ItakuraSound Recording
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Eiichi TeradaMusic
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Hiroshi Murai (r-studio)Sound Mixer
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Naoaki NishimuraFoley Artist
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Project Type:Feature
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Runtime:1 hour 40 minutes
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Completion Date:March 6, 2017
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Production Budget:700,000 JPY
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Country of Origin:Japan
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Country of Filming:Japan
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Language:English, Japanese
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Shooting Format:HD
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Aspect Ratio:2.35:1
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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Osaka Asian FilmFestival 2017Osaka
Japan
March 6, 2017
World Premiere -
Full MOON - Horror & Fantasy Film Festival 2017Bucuresti
Romania
August 10, 2017
Romania -
35th Torino Film FestivalTorino
Italy
November 27, 2017
Italian
Main competitive section "Torino 35" -
Night Visions International Film FestivalHelsinki
Finland
April 18, 2018
Nordic Premier -
Nippon Connection - Japanese Film FestivalFrankfurt
Germany -
BatsuFilmFestivalDenver
United States
Colorado -
Japan Film Festival HamburgHamburg
Germany
Distribution Information
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Born 1978 in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan, Tanaka currently resides in Tokyo. After graduating from the Faculty of Economics at Shiga University, he studied at the Film School of Tokyo on the documentary course under Makoto Sato, Takefumi Tsutsui and others.
The red thread of fate - an East Asian myth of a thread that ties destined lovers together - is nothing but a curse. We cannot will miracles to happen; they are forced upon us, abruptly and violently, by an unfathomably great power. One cannot escape it, one cannot resist it. The mythical thread then, if it exists, is surely something monstrous. Faced with such a force, man is always small and powerless. This miracle picks its targets arbitrarily, toys with them, and will not relent until its thread has drawn the fated pair together.