Antonym

Screening Schedule

Nov. 21 (Sat.) 16:00

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Details

<Synopsys>
Antonym is a slow-burning drama about human connection, told through the story of two women who come together to write a radio drama. Vain and self-centred Aya is forced to find a writing partner to work on the radio script she is developing. Heavily reluctant to collaborate, she partners shy co-worker Sachiko, who eagerly embraces the project. Peppered with coincidental occurrences and failed relationships, and powered by the friction and growing friendship between the women as they work on the script, Antonym is as much about the inevitability of human connection as it is about the necessity of it.

<Cast>
Directed by Natsuka Kusano
Written by Tomoyuki Takahashi, Natsuka Kusano
Cast : Yuri Ishizaka, Asami Shibuya, Kuniaki Nakamura, Tetsu Onji, Seitaro Ishibashi
Editing : Keita Suzuo, Natsuka Kusano
Cinematography : Yoshihiro Okayama
Sound: Mikisuke Shimazu
Music: Hiroshi Ueno

<Filmmakers>
Produced by Cineastes Organization Osaka (CO2)
Year of production: 2014
Running time : 73 min
Country: Japan
Language : Japanese

Director

Natsuka Kusano was born in 1985 in Yamato, Kanagawa Prefecture. After graduating from Tokai University, Department of Creative Writing, she studied filmmaking at the Film School of Tokyo, and participated in some independent films. In 2014, she made her first feature film Antonym with the support of Cineastes Organization Osaka. Antonym won Skip City award and Best Director at Skip City International D-Cinema Festival 2014 and Nippon Visions Jury Award at the 14th Nippon Connection. Antonym was released in September 2015 in Tokyo.