Synopse
Nicole Midori Woodford’s debut film is a sensitive ghost story about the search for traces of a family past. Ami lives in Singapore with her father. All that is left of her mother are messages recorded on cassette in Japan, where she went missing after a tsunami. After Ami gets a message from her uncle, who lost his wife in the same catastrophe, she sets out with him in search of her mother. The journey though the tsunami-ravaged Japanese landscape gives voice to their grief, while dreams and apparitions take ever clearer shape.
Regie
NICOLE MIDORI WOODFORD is a Singaporean film director whose short films have been shown at various festivals. Her first feature-length offering Last Shadow at First Light was shown in the New Directors section at the San Sebastián film festival.
Info
Original Title: Last Shadow at First Light
International Title: Last Shadow at First Light
Category: Feature
Section: Asia Express
Version & Subtitles: English, Japanese, Mandarin
Director: Nicole Midori Woodford
Cast/Protagonists: Masatoshi Nagase, Mihaya Shirata, Mariko Tsutsui, Peter Yu
Production country: Japan, Slovenia, Singapore
Year of Production: 2023
Length: 107 min
Producer: Jeremy Chua, Shozo Ichiyama, Bostjan Virc, Liza Diño-Seguerra, Yulia Evina Bhara
Production company: potocol, Fourier Films
Editor: Daniel Hui, Nicole Midori Woodford
Production Design: James Page, Setsuko Shiokawa
Casting: Hello Group, Yuriko Kitada
co-production company: Studio Virc, Fire and Ice Media and Productions, Kawan Kawan Media, Nocturne Films, Purple Tree Content, Hello Group, cogitoworks
