Presented by Japan Foundation
Quebec premiere
Selection 2018
Tremble All You Want
Directed by Akiko Ohku
Credits
Director
Akiko Ohku
Writer
Akiko Ohku
Cast
Anna Ishibashi, Takumi Kitamura, Mayu Matsuoka, Daichi Watanabe
Cinematographer
Natsuyo Nakamura
Sound Designer
Hajime Komiya
Composer
Masaki Takano
contact
Phantom Film Co., Ltd.
Official website
Honors
Tokyo International Film Festival Audience Award
Japan
2017 117 mins OV Japanese Subtitles : English
Official selection
Tokyo International Film Festival (Competition)
WINNER
Audience Award, Tokyo International Film Festival
“Matsuoka succeeds brilliantly. On camera in nearly every scene, she brings Yoshika to life with originality, charm and never a false note. Applaud all you want”Mark Schilling, JAPAN TIMES
Yoshika (Mayu Matsuoka) is 24 years old and works in the accounting office of a large company. Somewhat eccentric and socially maladroit, she often sleeps at work, enjoys looking up extinct animal species on Wikipedia, and spends most of her days mooning over "Ichi", a former classmate from 10 years ago – to this day, her only flame, with whom she remains madly in love. Then "Ni", a clumsy colleague, burst into her love life... ! And what about Ichi, whose path she crosses at a school alumni reunion? A whirlwind of emotions engulfs Yoshika’s existence, and reality will have to be confronted...
Audience Award-winner at the last Tokyo International Film Festival, TREMBLE ALL YOU WANT by Akiko Ohku (adapted from Risa Wataya's novel, published in French translation by Éditions Picquier) is a magnificent subversion of the romantic comedy. With a deceptively light tone, Ohku tackles expectations of female characters customary to such stories, and complicates the candy-coated codes that define the genre. Instead, Ohku delivers a sensitive and perceptive film, skillfully playing on the notion of perspective and perception in romantic relationships, while not hesitating to explore the psyche of a character whose mental health, inseparable from her mood, quickly becomes the main issue of the story. Boosted by a virtuoso performance by Matsuoka (seen at Fantasia in CHIHAYAFURU 1 and 2), TREMBLE ALL YOU WANT will charm you, to better disarm you, and redefine the conventions of the rom-com before your very eyes. – Translation: Rupert Bottenberg
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