Director: Yamada Yoji
Script: Yamada Yoji, Hiramatsu Emiko, adapté du roman de Nakajima Kyoko
Cinematographer: : Chikamori Masashi
Editing: Ishii Iwao
Sound: Kishida Kazumi
Music: Joe Hisaishi
Cast: Matsu Takako, Kuroki Haru, Kataoka Takataro, Yoshioka Hidetaka, Tsumabuki Satoshi, Baisho Chieko
Production: Shochiku
Distribution:
Pyramide Films
32 rue de l'Echiquier
75010 Paris
France
tel: 0033 1 42 96 01 10
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www.pyramidefilms.com
Year: 2014
Screening: 2019
DCP, Color, 108 mn,
OV Japanese with French Subtitles
Silver Bear for Best Actress 64th Berlin Film Festival 2014
Japan, 1936. Taki leaves her home in the country to work as a maid in a small, bourgeois house in the outskirts of Tokyo. It’s the peaceful home of Tokiko, her husband Masaki and their six-year-old son. But when Ikatura, Masaki’s new colleague, comes into their lives, Tokiko is irresistibly drawn to this delicate young man, and Taki becomes witness to their clandestine love affair. As the war breaks out, she must make a terrible decision. Sixty years later, on the death of Toki, her grand-nephew finds a sealed envelope in her things which contains a letter. He discovers then the truth about this long-kept secret.