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Okuyama Hiroshi’s ‘My Sunshine’ Looks at Adolescence, Ice Skating and Repression in Japan
Okuyama Hiroshi’s Cannes Un Certain Regard feature ‘My Sunshine’ looks at adolescence, ice skating and repression
A dreamy kid who speaks with a stutter, Takuya becomes entranced with Sakura (Nakanishi Kiara), a quietly confident girl who glides and leaps around the town’s ice rink like a vision of beauty and grace. He wrote a part for Ikematsu to play a former pro skater turned coach who lives contentedly with his partner (Wakaba Ryuya), a gas station owner, and sees potential in Sakura and Takuya as an ice dance pair. Okuyama then successfully pitched the project at the 2022 Asian Film Market in Busan and shot it with the backing of distributor Tokyo Theaters, newspaper publisher Asahi Shimbun and France’s Comme des Cinémas.
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