Screenplay
1987年、韓国の全羅道では翌年のソウル五輪に向けて急ピッチで高速道路の建設が行われていた。その冬、日本で詩人を夢見ながら非常勤講師として働く幸久（ソ・ドヨン）は、祖父の葬儀に参列するためにその地を訪れる。幸久は、久々に従兄弟のカンス（キム・ミンジュン）とも再会したが、カンスの幼なじみ（キム・プルン）が戻ってきたことによって……。
Director
1987年、韓国の全羅道では翌年のソウル五輪に向けて急ピッチで高速道路の建設が行われていた。その冬、日本で詩人を夢見ながら非常勤講師として働く幸久（ソ・ドヨン）は、祖父の葬儀に参列するためにその地を訪れる。幸久は、久々に従兄弟のカンス（キム・ミンジュン）とも再会したが、カンスの幼なじみ（キム・プルン）が戻ってきたことによって……。
Writer
A tale of two islands and growing up as a stranger in a strange land, told with an artistry that recalls Hou Hsiao-Hsien at his best. Based on Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s short story of the same title (1922), Kawaguchi’s film moves the original early 20th-century Izu Peninsula to present-day Taiwan, where the strength of family ties is singularly put to the test. Yumiko (Machiko Ono), who married against her parents' wishes, has struggled on in stubborn determination since her husband’s death, moving her family from their Tokyo home to the verdant, rural Taiwan village of her in-laws. Her son Atsushi, strongly conscious that in ethnocentric Japan he is "different," is in a state of rebellion against both the society in which he has grown up and his mother. In their new home the family rediscovers the bonds that unite it.
Director
A tale of two islands and growing up as a stranger in a strange land, told with an artistry that recalls Hou Hsiao-Hsien at his best. Based on Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s short story of the same title (1922), Kawaguchi’s film moves the original early 20th-century Izu Peninsula to present-day Taiwan, where the strength of family ties is singularly put to the test. Yumiko (Machiko Ono), who married against her parents' wishes, has struggled on in stubborn determination since her husband’s death, moving her family from their Tokyo home to the verdant, rural Taiwan village of her in-laws. Her son Atsushi, strongly conscious that in ethnocentric Japan he is "different," is in a state of rebellion against both the society in which he has grown up and his mother. In their new home the family rediscovers the bonds that unite it.
Assistant Director
近年、新たに再評価の機運が高まりをみせる、26歳で早世した若き天才童謡詩人金子みすゞ。その短くも強烈な生涯を「地雷を踏んだらサヨウナラ」の五十嵐匠監督が田中美里主演で映画化。大正の中頃、日本海の港町仙崎。少女・金子テルは本屋の店番をしながら書物を読み耽る毎日を過ごす。やがて兄の結婚を機にテルは母のいる下関へと移る。そこで小さな店を任されたテルは、店番のかたわら書いた詩を、“みすゞ”というペンネームで雑誌に投稿する。
