Pale Moon (Japanese Movie)

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Movie: Pale Moon (English title) / Paper Moon (literal title)
Romaji: Kami no Tsuki
Japanese: 紙の月
Director: Daihachi Yoshida
Writer: Mitsuyo Kakuta (novel), Kaeko Hayafune
Producer: Fumitsugu Ikeda, Satoko Ishida, Naomi Akashi
Cinematographer: Makoto Shiguma
World Premiere: October, 2014 (Tokyo IFF)
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Runtime: 126 min.
Genre: Award Winning-Drama / Crime / Mystery
Distributor: Shochiku
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot Synopsis by AsianWiki Staff ©

Rika Umezawa (Rie Miyazawa) lives with her husband, but without any children. She works part-time at a bank. Rika receives favorable evaluations from her clients and boss because of her attentive work. Nevertheless, she feels a sense of emptiness from her husband who doesn't seem interested in her. Rika then falls into an extramarital affair with a younger man named Kota. She also begins to embezzle money from her clients.

Notes

Based on novel "Kami no Tsuki" by Mitsuyo Kakuta (published March 15, 2012 by Kadokawa Haruki Corporation).
Filming began January 27, 2014 in Tokyo, Japan and finished its domestic filming portion on March 12, 2014. Shooting then took place on March 29-30, 2014 in Bangkok, Thailand.
Related titles:
1. Paper Moon | Kami no Tsuki (NHK / 2014)
2. Pale Moon | Kami no Tsuki (2014)
3. Pale Moon | Jongidal (ENA-Genie TV / 2023)

Cast



Rie Miyazawa	Sosuke Ikematsu	Yuko Oshima	Seiichi Tanabe
Rika Umezawa	Kota Hirabayashi	Keiko Aikawa	Masafumi Umezawa



Satomi Kobayashi	Yoshimasa Kondo	Renji Ishibashi	Hitomi Nakahara
Yoriko Sumi	Yuji Inoue	Kozo Hirabayashi	Tamae

Additional Cast Members:

Katsuhiko Sasaki - Hitoshi Osanai
Mayumi Tenkou - Mitsuko Osanai
Shima Ise - Imai
Yuna Taira - Rika Umezawa (14 years old)
Juri Ihata - bank co-worker of Rika Umezawa
Yaeko Kiyose - Yuri
Yoshinari Furuya
Koron Mizuno

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Film Festivals

2014 (27th) Tokyo International Film Festival - October 23-31, 2014 - Competition *World Premiere
2015 (15th) Nippon Connection - June 2-7, 2015 - Nippon Cinema *German Premiere
2015 (14th) New York Asian Film Festival - June 26-July 18, 2015 - New Cinema From Japan *U.S. Premiere
2015 (19th) Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival - July 16-26, 2015 - Vision Express *Korean Premiere

Awards

2014 (39th) Hochi Film Awards - December, 2014
- Best Actress (Rie Miyazawa)
- Best Supporting Actress (Yuko Oshima)
2015 (36th) Yokohama Film Festival - February 2, 2015
- Best Actress (Rie Miyazawa)
- Best Supporting Actor (Sosuke Ikematsu)
- Best Supporting Actress (Satomi Kobayashi/Yuko Oshima)
2015 (38th) Japan Academy Prize - February 27, 2015
- Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (Rie Miyazawa)

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HunterX Apr 25 2017 12:27 am The movie was about a bored married woman and a simple bank employee, fallen into lust of a young man. The woman, eventually, decided to give all of her heart to the young man, who desire only of her body, without a thought of the consequences affecting her family, her career and her future. She described it as her liberation and freedom from her daily life. It was hard pin point why decided to do so. Her husband was seem to be a loving person with a good career and stable financially. Her job was good for supportive role of family. Despite of all, she managed to get caught by passion of rather pathetic and spoiled young man. Afterward, everything fallen apart, and she lost everything she desired before.

I am not very sure of intention of the writer of movie, for me, the movie shown that, some men or women, will never satisfied with what they're had in their life. And eventually, the greed will consume everything, and left them despair.

Overall, the story was interesting, the acting was good, and it gave audience a good lesson of life.

Mike Warr Nov 22 2014 11:29 pm How do you fix it when it all starts to go wrong ? Can you live with the consequences of the things that you have done ?

This film is amazing and takes us on the journey of a person that started out with the best of intentions, but in life, things happen and people make mistakes.

This is a fantastic film and another stand out from JFF Sydney 2014. I can not recommend this film enough as it slowly and methodically narrates this dark story. It is confronting, it is truly worth watching.

Pale Moon (Japanese Movie)

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