Ryusuke Hamaguchi, the director of the Oscar-winning “Drive My Automotive” and his most up-to-date movie “Evil Does Not Exist,” will head from Japan to Paris for his subsequent function titled “All the Sudden.”
Hamaguchi is at the moment in Paris prepping the movie based mostly on a script he co-wrote with Léa Le Dimna, based on a report in Selection. And the movie is about to star French-Belgian actress Virginie Efira (“Benedetta”) and Japanese actress Tao Okamoto (“The Wolverine”). The movie will shoot primarily in Paris.
“All the Sudden” is loosely based mostly on a broadcast assortment of real-life letters by thinker Makiko Miyano, who wrote two books after being recognized with months to stay because of breast most cancers, and exchanged letters with an anthropologist. The movie will comply with the bond between two girls, one a Japanese theater director and the opposite a French head of a nursing house.
Hamaguchi advised Selection that with this movie he wished to “present a Paris that’s a little bit totally different from the clichés we would have in regards to the metropolis.”
“I’m beginning to uncover some locations that aren’t touristy. So I feel that may give a barely totally different view of Paris than traditional,” he added.
Cinefrance Studios is producing the movie, with David Gauquié, Julien Deris, Jean-Luc Ormières, and Renan Artukmaç serving as producers. Hiroko Matsuda, Kosuke Oshida, Yuji Sadai are additionally producing for the Japanese distributors Workplace Shirous and Bitters Finish. Bettina Brokemper can also be producing for Germany’s Heimat Movie, as is Joseph Rouschop at Belgium’s Tarantula.
The movie is being shopped to worldwide patrons on the Cannes Marche du Movie subsequent week, nevertheless it already has distribution in each Japan and France.
Hamaguchi’s “Drive My Automotive” was a field workplace hit, bringing in $15.3 million worldwide earlier than successful the Oscar for Greatest Worldwide Characteristic. His follow-up “Evil Does Not Exist,” launched within the U.S. final yr, gained the Silver Lion from Venice.