Acclaimed Japanese director Lisa Takeha (“Pinkie Pie,” “100”) is creating the Japanese-Italian co-production “River Youngsters,” which explores themes of id and loss by the story of dual sisters. The challenge is taking part within the Tokyo Hole Financing Market operated by TIFFCOM, a movie market aligned with the Tokyo Worldwide Movie Competition.
The movie is ready to shoot in the summertime of 2025, set in opposition to the gorgeous rivers of southern Japan. That is the story of a summer time that follows a younger artwork scholar on a journey to seek out herself, pushed by her bond together with her twin sister to unintentionally imitate her older sister.
“This can be a story about an id disaster,” Takeda advised kind. “Twinship is a duality, and when you lose your associate, you lose one half.”
The challenge is without doubt one of the first options to reap the benefits of the Japan-Italy co-production treaty that got here into power in August. Takeba mentioned her admiration for Italian cinema, significantly the work of Alice Rohrwacher, was the inspiration for the collaboration.
“Each nations have such elegant cultures, and most Japanese admire Italian tradition,” Takeba mentioned. “I feel this collaboration will create an enormous synergy, like a mirror between Italian post-production and Japanese filming crews.”
The director plans to view the movie as a “panorama”, centered across the pure surroundings. The movie additionally goals to make delicate environmental statements by visible language.
“When the pandemic began, I noticed plenty of information on the BBC or CNN, and many of the visuals have been grey,” Takeda explains. “I wished to place a very totally different coloration picture, like brilliant inexperienced. Everybody wants water, not hearth. That is additionally my underlying emotion about international warming.
The challenge builds on Jukchang’s file of worldwide collaborations, following Japanese-Kazakh co-production The Horse Thief (2019), co-directed by Yerlan Nurmukhambetov and produced for Busan Worldwide Movie Competition opens. Italy’s Antropica (“her”) is co-producing.
