My Girlfriend's Confession Ranking
-Drama (PG13)
Director: Shinichiro Ueda
Country: Japan
Length: 21min 5s
Language: Japanese
Subtitle: English
Completed date: 2014
One day, a guy proposed to his girlfriend. He thought it would be a "Yes, I do", but instead, his girlfriend said she has 17 confessions to made before he decide if he would still want to marry her. What confessions would there be? Would be able to accept all of them, and marry his sweet heart?
Director: Shinichiro Ueda
Script writer: Shinichiro Ueda
Producer: Wataru Ohashi
DP: Shinichiro Ueda
Editor: Shinichiro Ueda
Cast: Yusuke Nakayama, Yuki Enami, Akihiro Hashimot, Kenji Kanetsuki, Tomokazu Yamaguchi, Manabu Hosoi, Tomoyuki Ishiwake, Ryou Sakagawa
Film Festival Awards:
Shitamachi Comedy Awards 2014, Second Prize
Fukuoka Independent Film Festival 2014 Comedy Prize
18th Mito Short Film Festival, Best Actor Prize for Hashimoto
17th Ozu Yasujiro Tateshinakougen Film Festival, Official Selection
West Tokyo Community Film Festival, Third Prize
10th Tokyo Getsuichi Film Festival, Grand Prix
GAKUGAKU Short Film Festival, Audience Award Second Prize
Fukui Short Film Festival 2014, Best Humour Prize
Film Festival Appearance:
Taos Shortz Film Festival (USA, New Mexico)
JAPANESE CURRENTS (USA, Portland)
Roving Eye Film Festival (USA, Rhode Island)
SSFF&ASIA 2014, Offical Competition Nomination
Sapporo International Film Festival 2014, National Programme Official Selection
12th Nakanojima Film Festival
Chofu Film Festival 2015
Nasu Short Film Festival
Otsuka Short Film Festival
1st Awarayukemuri Art Festival
11th TOKYO Tsukiichi Film Festival
Forest Film Festival 2014
Yokohama HAPPY!!MUS!C Film Festival
Director's message:
There are unspoken rules of filmmaking such as : "margining", "creating echoes", "not to use narration", "not to explain things in words", "not to over use the same music", "not to zoom-in or zoom-out", etc. And this film has taken the bold step and broke all these rules. It is alright for TV dramas to break some of these rules, but this film is way beyond the level of TV dramas. In fact, not just breaking the rules by just a little bit, but it has deliberately broken the rules to a great extent. It was not aiming to be a good piece of film anyway, but it aims to develop itself into an unbelievable situation through power and speed.
About the filmmaker
Born on 7th April 1984 in Shiga Prefecture, Ueda started making independent films with his friends when he was in junior high school. At 25, he founded his film production group "PANPOKOPINA". This group has created 13 films and have received more than 30 awards and offical selection from film festivals in Japan and overseas. In 2015, he made his first commercial film, Omni Bus Film "Nekomanma". Following their slogan "Making interesting films that last for 100 years" they continue to make films that are high in entertainment value, and films that convey a common message to the general public. Personally, Ueda works as a freelance filmmaker. Besides focusing on filmmaking, he is also involved in stage drama, acting, music video, corporate commercial videos, etc. He has directed several films such as "Naporitan", "Take8", "Cat", Last Wedding Dress", "My Girlfriends Confession Ranking", "Cobra Twist in the Heart, "The Author in Love", "Rice and Boobs".
