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Kyoto Film Pitching
Jidaigeki meets a heart-wrenching human drama. Shichu Hikimawashi is an Edo-period punishment where a criminal on death row is publicly dragged around the streets to the execution ground. However, this specific criminal feels indebted to keep silent – and a public official decides to endanger his own life for this man’s sake.
In the late Edo period, Tatsunoshin, a shogunate official, was tasked with publicly dragging criminal Hanjiro to his execution ground. Hanjiro, who is to be put on the cross for murdering the owner of a store he had worked at for many years, somehow is relaxed enough to sing songs on his horse. With arising suspicion, Tatsunoshin tries to find out what this man is thinking instead of giving him what he wants at the five checkpoints along the road to the execution ground. Soon, he finds out Hanjiro’s secret along the road...
Director Shinsuke Kurimoto
Actor Shinichiro Matsuura, Goro Sato, Yudai Hayashi, Shuhei Emura
Japan｜ 2024｜ 17min｜ ｜ –｜
- Human Drama
director
Shinsuke Kurimoto [Film Director]
Kurimoto studied filmmaking in Waseda University Art and Architecture School and later became an apprentice of Kiyoshi Kirosawa at the Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts. He directed an omnibus film “Hito no Sabaku: Obaasan ga Shinda” (2010) based on Kotaro Sawaki’s book, which was released in domestic theaters. His graduation project “cage” (2010) was selected for the Frankfurt Film Festival. He has since continued working on his own projects including short films.
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