Taeko an stressed out career woman leaves her stressed out life in the city for an island vacation. The vacation does not become what expected, as everyone on the island are rather strange. –IMDb
Ogigami Naoko was born in 1972 in Japan. After she graduated from Chiba University, she went to the United States in 1994 to study film at the graduate school of University of Southern California, school of Cinema-Television. She went back to Japan in 2000 and began making a movie there. She received attention for her directorial debut [Yoshino’s Barber Shop] (2003), which received a Special Mention at the Kinderfilmfest in the Berlin Film Festival in 2004. Her third film, [Kamome Diner] (2006) has been very successful both domestically and internationally. Her fourth film, [Glasses] (2007) received Manfred Salzgeber Award of the Berlin Film Festival. Her latest film [Toilet] (2010) made in Toronto, Canada, is her first English language film. —asianfilmmarket.org
