City of Silence (カタラズのまちで)(PG)
- Drama
Director: Kanji Tsuda
Length: 25min 0sec
Language: NIL
Subtitle: NIL
Completed date: 2013
In a small rural town, FUKUI, there is a painter who loved by local dwellers. His unique style of color usage was affected from the person who met at the painter's time of a junior high school student. The person was a homeless who lived under a bridge. Instead of words, Painting played the role of their communicational language; two persons reached out to understanding each other beyond their generation, even though it was a momentary. Based on the real experience of Kanji Tsuda, director of the film, the slightly bitter youth story reveals the inside scenery of local silence town.
Director, Writer: Kanji Tsuda
Producer: Tsuyoshi Kigawa, Kosuke Miyata
Cinematography: Kenji Tsuji
Editor: Akira Yamamoto
Casts: Ryo Ito, Tetsu Watanabe, Kanji Tsuda, Shinji Matsubayashi, Ryo Katayama,
Junko Ueda, Shoji Yamada, Emika Hayashi, Toshihiro Ishikura, Karen Ito,
Yasue Shimizu, Masaki Yasui, Noriko Datsuke, Yukari Nishino, Hironari Nakayama
Film Festival Awards
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Short Short Film Festival & Asia 2013, Japan Category Nominated
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SKIP City International Cinema Film Festival 2013, Short Film Category Nominated




About the filmmaker
Tsuda approached Takeshi Kitano at a café where he worked and made his debut with "Sonatine" in 1993. Now a veteran seasoned actor, Tsuda’s credits include Naoto Takenaka’s 119 (1994), Copycat Killer (2002) and Dolls (2002), which he won the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Supporting Actor, and many more. In 2012, he participated in Fukui Yume Art Project and directed this short film.

