IT’S A FLICKERING LIFE
(original title: Kinema no Kamisama キネマの神様)
One of the Japanese film world’s foremost figures, Yoji Yamada, returns to the screen with his latest masterwork, based on the novel “Kinema no Kamisama” by popular multiple prize-winning novelist Maha Harada. This deeply personal work of literature, inspired by Harada’s own family and experiences, is being adapted by Yamada into a sublime work of cinema, focusing on a theme that has become synonymous with long-established film studio Shochiku through the ages: family.