Following the Sound

彼方のうた

©2023 Nekojarashi Inc.

©2023 Nekojarashi Inc.

Haru (25), a bookstore clerk, talks to Yukiko (47) pretending to ask for directions. Haru has detected deep sorrow on Yukikoʼs face. Meanwhile, Haru has been spending days following Tsuyoshi (47) discretely and checking his expressions. In the past, when Haru had lost her mother as a junior high school student, she met and talked separately to Yukiko and Tsuyoshi by chance who seemed to suffer from heartache. The action was brought by the remorse that Haru couldnʼt help her mother while knowing her sadness. Haru has kept watching Yukiko and Tsuyoshi now and then. Occasions that Tsuyoshi, who has been aware of Haruʼs behavior, appears at her workplace and Haru once again talks to Yukiko unfold new dimensions in each relationship. Haru confronts with her own feeling toward her mother and grief during the days passing with the two.

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Directed By

SUGITA Kyoshi

OGAWA An, NAKAMURA Yuko, MASHIMA Hidekazu

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Director's Biography - SUGITA Kyoshi

Born in Tokyo, 1977. While being a student at Rikkyo University, SUGITA studied films under the director, Makoto SHINOZAKI. After graduation, SUGITA worked as an assistant director for films directed by Kiyoshi KUROSAWA, Makoto SHINOZAKI, Shinji AOYAMA, Nobuhiro SUWA, and others. His debut feature, “A Song I Remember” (2011), was shown at the Tokyo International Film Festival: his second feature, “Listen to Light” (2017) was screened at the Tokyo International Film Festival as well as Jeonju International Film Festival: his third feature, "Haruhara-san's Recorder" (2021) was screened at the FID Marseille (Grand Prix, The Best Acting Award, Audience Award), Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival (Rainer Werner Fassbinder Award Special Mention), San Sebastian International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Busan International Film Festival, Sao Paulo International Film Festival, Viennale, Belfort International Film Festival, Gothenburg International Film Festival, FICUNAM and it will be distributed in France in 2023. SUGITA has established his own style to illustrate the incidents and each character’s minds with eyes and subtle body movements by limiting explanations in dialogues or narrations as much as possible.