Days in the Shade

(2003)

Genres: Documentary, Drama, History

Year: 2003

Runtime: 43 мин

Director: 青山真治

Cast: 嶋田久作, とよた真帆, Tao Nashimoto

Plot

In modern-day Kanazawa, writer Tokuda Shūsei returns to his hometown and is quietly drawn to Okine, the daughter of a fading inn. Inspired by four of Shūsei’s works, director Shinji Aoyama (Desert Moon) transforms the inner world of a Meiji-era novelist into a meditative film that drifts between memory and the present, culminating in a luminous live performance that dissolves the boundary between art and life.