ASIA
SHORTLIST
Numano
Japan / Drama / 18 minutes
Director/Writer: Corey David Fuller
Producer: Jens H Jensen
Cast: Keisuke Yamamoto
Numano, a single, young Salaryman in his 20s has been working at a small real-estate agent in Shinjuku for nearly three years. Already bored and disillusioned, he feels as if he has chosen the wrong path in life. In fact, in his gut he knows it and yet he lacks the courage and resolve to do something about it.
Replay
Japan / Drama / 24 minutes
Director/Writer: Tetsuhiko Tsutiya
Producer: Naoya Asanuma
Cast: Sarasa Nakamura
Former theater members who reunited at the funeral for the first time in ten years. A script left by a dead classmate in their hands. It was a story that recreated that day when the theater festival was canceled in the fall of high school 3. What actions did they take with their regrets in their hearts?
Stay Pretty, No Pity
Japan / Horror / 11 minutes
Director/Writer: Wilco C. Rullens
Producer: KT Rong, Wilco C. Rullens
Cast: Maria Ozawa, Saki Ohwada, Aya Amelia Kodama
Lucy was visited by a ghost who showed her a bunch of visions and gave her 3 days to solve the mystery within them. That was three days ago. She is in her last hour.
Tofu
Japan / Drama / 15 minutes
Director/Writer: Hiroyuki Nishiyama
Producer: Hiroyuki Nishiyama
Cast: Misaki Hattori, Kotaro Inoue, Kaoru Okunuki
Kaede has been quarrelling with his father, a tofu maker, since she lost her mother. One morning, She heads to the sea that she often visited with my mother. The blue sea, the sound of the waves, and the blue sky, remind her of her mother. She comes up with telling her father the memories of mother.
The Limit Taxi Girl
Japan / Drama / 24 minutes
Director: Masaya Yoshida
Writer: Shinya Tamada
Producer: Kosuke Nakamura, Shuichi Komuro
Cast: Mugi Kadowaki, Kotone Furukawa, Hiroshi Shigeoka
Saki, a lawyer, gets into an idling taxi on her way to the airport for her job. However, the taxi driv-er is actually her sister Satomi who had been lying in wait for her. Against her sister's wishes, Satomi drives toward the hospital where their mother lies in critical condition.