The Moon

Details

（C）2023『月』製作委員会

STORY

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Yoko had won a literary award as a writer but has been unable to write new stories for a long time. She gets a job at "Crescent Garden," a nursing home for people with severe disabilities, where she meets Sato, her young co-worker, and Ki-chan, a resident of the same age as Yoko. Ki-chan is blind, bedridden, and rarely moves.It was during this time that Yoko becomes pregnant. Yoko recalls the loss of her son and wonders if she should undergo prenatal diagnosis.Meanwhile, at "Crescent Garden,” Sato’s eccentric thoughts are fostered and accelerated by his co-workers who treat the residents as if they have no personalities. He asks, "Can you talk? Do you have a soul?” And this eventually leads to a shocking incident where more than dozen residents were killed…

CAST

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MIYAZAWA Rie, ISOMURA Hayato, NIKAIDO Fumi, ODAGIRI Joe

STAFF

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Screenplay: ISHII Yuya
Cinematographer: KAMAKARI Yoichi
Lighting: OSADA Tatsuya
Recording: TAKASUKA Kengo
Music: WASHIRO Taro
Original Story: HEMMI Yo
Exective Producers: KAWAMURA Mitsunobu
Producers: NAGAI Ryo, NAGAI Takuro

Info

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Year of production: 2023
Country: Japan
Running time: 144min
Language: Japanese

Director

ISHII Yuya
ISHII Yuya, born in Saitama Prefecture in 1983, attended Osaka University of Arts. His graduation film, “Bare-assed Japan” (2005), was awarded the Grand Prize at the 2007 Pia Film Festival. At 24 in 2008, Ishii won the Edward Yang New Talent Award at the 1st Asian Film Awards.
　ISHII's first commercial feature film, “Sawako Decides” (2010), led to a formal invite to the Berlin International Film Festival. He was the youngest director ever to win Best Film Award and Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Director at Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival. His film, “The Great Passage” (2013), won Picture of the Year at the 37th Japan Academy Film Prize, and he was awarded Director of the Year. He was the youngest ever director to represent Japan at the Academy Award—the Oscars—in the US in the Foreign Language Film category. Other well-known films he has directed include “Our Family” (2014), "The Vancouver Asahi" (2014), “The Tokyo Night Sky is Always the Densest Shade of Blue” (2017), "Almost a Miracle" (2019), "All the Things We Never Said" (2020), "A Madder Red" (2021), “The Asian Angel” (2021), and "Masked Hearts" (2023).