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Synopsis

A forty something couple faces boredom as they enter their 10th year of marriage.

Shunsuke Kitami (Etsushi Toyokawa) used to be a hard working photographer, but he hasn’t touched the camera in a year. His wife Sakura (Hiroko Yakushimaru) bickers frequently with Shunsuke, but nevertheless takes good care of her husband. A year ago, right before Christmas, Shunsuke took his wife on a trip to Okinawa to conceive a baby – even though Sakura doesn’t like to travel. That was the last time he took a picture.

Now, despite the insistence of his assistant, Shunsuke still hasn’t touched the camera. Shunsuke then decides to photograph a young actress (Asami Mizukawa), with the ultimate goal to have an affair with her. But before the affair can happen Sakura suddenly shows up.

Later, Sakura makes her own confession that she has been seeing someone else for almost a year. Sakura then asks Shunsuke to take a photograph of her to commemorate their divorce. “Take my picture” was also the words Shunsuke heard Sakura say during their trip in Okinawa … —asianmediawiki.com

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Isao Yukisada

Isao Yukisada was born in Kumamoto in 1968. He first worked as an assistant director on Shunji Iwai’s films Love Letter and Swallowtail Butterfly and then, in 1998, for Seiichi Tanabe on his film, Dog Food. Ever since his tragedy, Himawari/Sunflower, which received the international critics’ award at Pusan International Festival in 2000, he has come to be regarded as one of the up and coming talents of Japanese cinema. He contributed to the video series, “Love Cinema” with a piece entitled Tojiru Hi/Enclosed Pain, screened at Locarno 2001. Go was Japan’s selection to the Foreign Language Oscars. —ilovemarrakech.com 

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