EXCLUSIVE: Chinese sales agent Parallax Films is expanding its Japanese slate, picking up Nao Yoshigai’s hybrid documentary Masayume and Diana Dai’s fantasy drama Fools On Fire.
Masayume follows director Yoshigai as she starts Zen training at a temple while in search of peace to overcome worldly sorrow after the death of her mother. Yoshigai is an award-winning artist working mainly in moving images and dance. Her short film Grand Bouquet played at Cannes in Directors’ Fortnight in 2019.
Fantasy drama Fools On Fire is about a 70-year-old man who drifts like a ghost until he comes face to face with his 15-year-old self from the turbulent era of Japan’s avant-garde culture and political movements in the 1960s.
This graduation work from Ritsumeikan University by Japan-based Chinese director Dai is an unconventional Japanese film seen through the lens of the younger generation and features bizarre and exaggerated visual language.
Meanwhile, Parallax has sold Japanese director Kaori Oda’s hybrid documentary film Underground to Korean distributor Cinematograph, following its international premiere at Berlin’s Forum in February.
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