Japanese Film Competition (Feature Length)
Sacrifice◊World Premiere◊
7/14 (Sun) 14:30
7/17 (Wed) 10:30
<2019 / Japan / 76min.>
Midori, who predicted the Great East Japan Earthquake while she was a member of Shio no kai, a religious cult, is now a college student. Three disturbing incidents occur near the college. Toko, a college student, suspects that the cat killer is her schoolmate Okita.
©2018立教大学映像身体学科/Récolte&Co.
Director: Taku TSUBOI
Cast: Yuzu AOKI, Michiko GOMI, Miki HANDA, Kosuke FUJITA, Yasuyuki SAKURAI, Hatsune YAZAKI, Hana SHIMOMURA, Chieko MISAKA, Kouta KUSANO, Takahiro MIURA
Director: Taku TSUBOI
Born in Tokyo, Tsuboi graduated from the Japan Institute of the Moving Image. He then enrolled in the Department of Body Expression and Cinematic Arts at Rikkyo University. There he worked on Makoto Shinozaki’s Sharing (2014), Wish We Were Here (2018), and Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Journey to the Shore (2015). Sacrifice is Tsuboi’s feature debut and the first film to be produced with a scholarship from Rikkyo’s Department of Body Expression and Cinematic Arts.
