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Japan’s Imagica Group Selects ‘Maria’ As First Project For Financing Scheme Supported By Hirokazu Kore-eda
Tomoka Terada’s Maria is the first project to win finance through a new initiative launched by Japan’s Imagica Group and backed by Hirokazu Kore-eda.
Tomoka Terada’s Maria, a drama about a young woman facing an unwanted pregnancy, is the first project to secure financing through a new initiative launched by Japan’s Imagica Group and backed by leading filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda. Her script for Maria follows a young woman in a nondescript, industrial area of Japan who finds herself pregnant with no chance of asking her absent boyfriend or family for support. Imagica Group president and CEO Shunjiro Nagase unveiled the scheme – the company’s first foray into production launched to celebrate its 90th anniversary – at an event in the Cannes Marche today.
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