CreditsCast Staff Profile KINOSHITA YusukeBorn in Tokyo, 1981, he took an interest in making films during high school. He was part of a filmmaking club at the prestigious Waseda University where he began making short films. His short video, Birdcage (2002), which depicted a boy’s emotional journey to find his mother, won both the Runner-up Award and Audience Award at the PFF Award Competition 2003; the film was also highly praised by one of the jurors, KAWASE Naomi (The Mourning Forest). Water Flower, produced by the PFF Scholarship Program, is a companion piece to Birdcage and was released in Japan in the summer of 2006.Names are written with family names first in the Japanese style |
The 15th PFF Scholarship Film Water Flower
SynopsisA portrait of the relationship between Minako, a girl in junior high deserted by her mother when she was young, and Yu, Minako’s younger half-sister who loves to ballet dance. On a whim, Minako takes Yu to the house of their late grandparents near the sea. As she spends time taking care and playing with her little sister, Minako takes on the role of a mother. She reminisces on her own happy childhood. Minako has reached the age when she feels more and more distant from her father, but holds a deeper resentment for her mother who eloped with another man, deserting Minako and her father. |