The Great Passage

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Movie: The Great Passage (English title) / We Knit Ship (literal title)
Romaji: Fune wo Amu
Japanese: 舟を編む
Director: Yuya Ishii
Writer: Shion Miura (novel), Kensaku Watanabe
Producer: Tomo Tsuchii, Kimitaka Goka, Noritsugu Iketa, Yasuyuki Iwanami
Cinematographer: Junichi Fujisawa
Release Date: April 13, 2013
Runtime: 133 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy / Romance / Best Film-Movie of the Year
Distributor: Asmik Ace Entertainment, Shochiku
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot Synopsis by AsianWiki Staff ©

Majime (Ryuhei Matsuda) has a talent to comprehend different languages and holds different views than others. He is the most important member of a dictionary edit team. Other word enthusiasts gather at the dictionary edit section for a publishing company. Majime finds himself struggling with the word "sea". Meanwhile, Majime attempts to tell Kaguya Hayashi (Aoi Miyazaki) how he feels about her. Kaguya Hayashi is a cook and the granddaughter of the owner of his boarding home.

Notes

Based on novel "Fune o Amu" by Shion Miura (published September 17, 2011 by Kobunsha).
Filming takes place from late July, 2012 - September 2012.
"The Great Passage" is selected as Japan's submission for the "Best Foreign Language Film" at the 86th Academy Awards.

Cast



Ryuhei Matsuda	Aoi Miyazaki	Joe Odagiri	Haru Kuroki	Misako Watanabe
Mitsuya Majime	Kaguya Hayashi	Masashi Nishioka	Midori Kishibe	Take



Chizuru Ikewaki	Shingo Tsurumi	Hiroko Isayama	Kaoru Yachigusa	Kaoru Kobayashi
Remi Miyoshi	Director Murakoshi	Kaori Sasaki	Chie Matsumoto	Kouhei Araki



Go Kato	Shohei Uno	Ryu Morioka	Naoki Matayoshi	Yoshiki Saito
Tomosuke Matsumoto	Shinichiro Miyamoto	Egawa	Togawa	Kobayashi



Kazuki Namioka	Kumiko Aso
editor	actress on poster

Additional Cast Members:

Kanako Mochida - student part-time worker
Kasumi Yamaya
Kiyobumi Kaneko
Kanako Higashi

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Film Festivals

2013 (37th) Hong Kong International Film Festival - March 17 - April 4, 2013 - Gala Presentation
2013 (17th) Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival - July 18-28, 2013 - Vision Express *Korean Premiere
2013 (17th) Fantasia Film Festival - July 18-August 7, 2013 *Canadian Premiere
2013 (10th) Japanese Film Festival (Kuala Lumpur) - September 12-17, 2013
2013 (32nd) Vancouver International Film Festival - September 26-October 12, 2013 - Dragons and Tigers
2013 (57th) BFI London Film Festival - October 9-20, 2013 - Laugh
2014 (43rd) International Film Festival Rotterdam - January 22-February 2, 2014 - Spectrum
2014 (13th) New York Asian Film Festival - June 27-July 14, 2014 *New York Premiere
2014 (8th) JAPAN CUTS - July 10-20, 2014 *New York Premiere

Awards

2013 (38th) Hochi Film Awards - December, 2013
- Best Picture
- Best Actor (Ryuhei Matsuda)
- Best Supporting Actress (Chizuru Ikewaki)
2014 (37th) Japan Academy Prize - March 7, 2014
- Picture of the Year
- Director of the Year
- Screenplay of the Year
- Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
- Outstanding Achievement in Sound Recording
- Outstanding Achievement in Film Editing

Comments

jejejeh Feb 20 2016 6:15 am Ryuhei Matsuda, I love you!!!!!

somnolence28 Apr 02 2014 10:06 pm Ryuhei Matsuda looks like human form of Ice King of Adventure Time... ^^

Nissa Aug 27 2012 2:39 am Finally, Ryuhei Matsuda and Aoi Miyazaki will play a couple!!! :) I must watch this movie! and it was really very nice surprise for me to I find out that Joe Odagiri will also participate in filming :) such a great cast, looking forward to watch this movie!

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