The Shell Collector - Japan Cuts 2016

North American Premiere
The Shell Collector
シェル・コレクター (Sheru Korekuta)
Thu., July 21 at 7 pm
Introduction and Q&A with director Yoshifumi Tsubota and star Lily Franky, with CUT ABOVE award ceremony.
Living alone along the white sand and turquoise waters of Okinawa is a blind professor (Lily Franky) who spends his days collecting and writing about seashells. His solitude is interrupted when a woman (Shinobu Terajima) washes up unconscious on the shore. Restored to health, the young woman is stung by one of the professor's poisonous shellfish and unexpectedly cured of a rare disease. News about the shellfish's healing power spreads quickly and soon everyone seeks out the professor's cure, including his estranged son (Sosuke Ikematsu). Director Yoshifumi Tsubota delivers a hypnotically beautiful, impressionistic dream of a film that ponders the connection between man and nature. Featuring stunning location cinematography by Akiko Ashizawa and a spare, haunting score by Billy Martin (of Medeski Martin & Wood).
2016. 89 min. DCP, in Japanese with English subtitles. Directed by Yoshifumi Tsubota. With Lily Franky, Shinobu Terajima, Sosuke Ikematsu, Ai Hashimoto, Akira Fukuhara.
Adapted from the story by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr.
Part of JAPAN CUTS 2016
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