NARAtive - The Film Projec
Last Chestnuts

JAPAN / 2010 / DVcam / 60min / with English subtitles / The Committee of Nara International Film Festival
- Story
- One day, one mother(Kaori Momoi) who used to hospitalized at Tokyo’ s hospital will come to Kashihara city at Nara prefecture. The reason why she came up to Nara is to find her son. But the only clue she had was the digital camera which her son forgot at the hospital and with the memories inside. After the long journey of finding her son, what his mother found was his nice friends and a beautiful nature of Nara. But the most important realization was her big love to her own son. Suffering from the terminal cancer, this is one story about one type of family love nowadays.
- Staff
〈Director〉Zhao Ye
〈Writer〉Zhao Ye
〈Producers〉Kawase Naomi
〈Director of Photography〉hideyo Nakano
〈Lighting〉Kousuke Yamamoto
〈Sound〉Eiji Mori
- Cast
Kaori Momoi
Setsuko Dodo
Shigeki Uda
- Director's
- Zhao Ye
- Profile
Zhao Ye was born in 1979, and graduated Beijing Film Academy in 2004. At the same year he directed short animation film “Cai Wei-Weed Picker”. In 2007 he had directed long film “Ma Wu Jia”. This film was showed at many movie festivals, and also won a prize of “中国独立電影影展”. At 2008 his second directed movie “Jalainur” won a Fiprescif Prize at 13th Pusan international movie festival. After that his film was shown at Vancouver international movie festival, Rotterdam international movie festival and so on.
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