The Woodsman and the Rain

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• Movie: The Woodsman and the Rain
• Romaji: Kitsutsuki to Ame
• Japanese: キツツキと雨
• Director: Shuichi Okita
• Writer: Shuichi Okita, Fumio Moriya
• Producer: Shiro Sasaki, Satoshi Arashi
• Cinematographer: Yuta Tsukinaga
• World Premiere: October 23, 2011 (Tokyo International Film Festival)
• Release Date: February 11, 2012
• Runtime: 129 min.
• Genre: Drama / Comedy
• Production Company: Kadokawa Pictures
• Distributor: Kadokawa Pictures
• Language: Japanese
• Country: Japan

Plot

Rookie movie director Koichi (Shun Oguri) and his crew travels to the mountain village of Yamamura to film his next movie. The villagers are eventually enlisted to help film the movie and, in particular, 60-year-old lumberjack Katsuhiko (Koji Yakusho) helps against his will.

Notes

1. Filming began March 29, 2011.

Cast

Koji Yakusho	Shun Oguri
Katsuhiko Kishi	Koichi Tanabe

Kengo Kora	Asami Usuda	Kanji Furutachi	Daisuke Kuroda	Kyusaku Shimada
Koichi Kishi	Tamae Asou	Torii	Shibata	Shinoda

Yoshiyuki Morishita	Tsutomu Takahashi	Mitsuru Hirata	Masato Ibu	Tsutomu Yamazaki
Yoshioka	Nomiya	Mitsuharu Goma	Ishimaru	Keijiro Haba

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Film Festivals

• 2011 (24th) Tokyo International Film Festival - October 22 - 30, 2011 - Competition *World Premiere
• 2012 (3th) Terracotta Far East Film Festival - April 12-15, 2012 *UK Premiere
• 2012 (12th) Nippon Connection - May 2-May 6, 2012 - Nippon Cinema *European Premiere
• 2012 (14th) Udine Far East Film - April 20-April 28, 2012 *Italian Premiere

Awards

• Special Jury Prize - 2011 (24th) Tokyo International Film Festival - October 22 - 30, 2011
• Nippon Cinema Award - 2012 (12th) Nippon Connection - May 2-May 6, 2012

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