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6.0
Aki and Naoko are childhood friends who are drifting apart as adults. Immersed in her family life, Naoko now has a husband and daughter; Aki, on the other hand, remains single and is on leave from work due to a personal crisis. The plot might sound familiar but it has never been told like this. The director Kusano Natsuka stages the interactions through an actors’ table-read and, as the lines are repeated, the scenes gradually develop into on-location conversations. Moreover, she repositions the dramatic peak of the story to the beginning: Aki has murdered Naoko’s daughter.
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Natsuka Kusano Director · Tomoyuki Takahashi Screenplay Yasutaka Watanabe Cinematographer
Budget $150K · First release January 24, 2019 · Produced in Japan
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Budget
$150,000
Production
Aichi Arts Center
Production
Japan
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Original title
王国（あるいはその家について）
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Netherlands · January 24, 2019
Premiere · International Film Festival Rotterdam
No release date listed for United States.
Japan
February 8, 2019 · Premiere · Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions
Syria
June 2, 2019 · Premiere · Singapore International Festival of Arts
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