Following the excellent “Orphan’s Blues”, which won the Grand Prix and the Hikari TV Award at the 40th Pia Film Festival, Riho Kudo released her commercial debut, “Let Me Hear it Barefoot”, which was the Pff Scholarship Film for 2021.
Naomi works for his father’s disposal business, picking up people’s junk day in and day out. He keeps some choice finds for himself in a private garage, where he wishes for a better life away from home. At the same time, he has trouble connecting with the people around him, barely having any friends, while his relationship with his father lingers somewhere between the formal and the completely disconnected. One day, though, he runs into Maki while swimming at a local pool, who is essentially the exact opposite of him, always cheerful and eager to connect, and eventually also meets his blind adoptive mother, Midori, who shares her...
Naomi works for his father’s disposal business, picking up people’s junk day in and day out. He keeps some choice finds for himself in a private garage, where he wishes for a better life away from home. At the same time, he has trouble connecting with the people around him, barely having any friends, while his relationship with his father lingers somewhere between the formal and the completely disconnected. One day, though, he runs into Maki while swimming at a local pool, who is essentially the exact opposite of him, always cheerful and eager to connect, and eventually also meets his blind adoptive mother, Midori, who shares her...
- 9/15/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
In her second feature, following the 2018 title “Orphan’s Blues”, Riho Kudo deals with the topics of friendship and mischief, love and affection in a strictly coded society such as Japanese. “Let Me Hear It Barefoot” premiered last September at the home turf of Pia Film Festival, and it was selected for the Harbour section of IFFR, which serves as its international premiere.
Nederland, Rotterdam, 11/01/2021, iffr vlaggen op de boompjes, foto Jan de Groen
It seems that our protagonist, a young guy named Naomi (up and coming actor Shion Sasaki), has trouble connecting to people around him. When he is surrounded by his friends, he tends to zone out, and he has a very formal relationship with his father (Masahiro Komoto). So, when Naomi meets his exact opposite, Maki (newcomer Shuri Suwa) by chance at a swimming pool, his life turns completely…
Maki is a happy-go-lucky-type of young lad who...
Nederland, Rotterdam, 11/01/2021, iffr vlaggen op de boompjes, foto Jan de Groen
It seems that our protagonist, a young guy named Naomi (up and coming actor Shion Sasaki), has trouble connecting to people around him. When he is surrounded by his friends, he tends to zone out, and he has a very formal relationship with his father (Masahiro Komoto). So, when Naomi meets his exact opposite, Maki (newcomer Shuri Suwa) by chance at a swimming pool, his life turns completely…
Maki is a happy-go-lucky-type of young lad who...
- 2/11/2022
- by Marko Stojiljković
- AsianMoviePulse
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