Some news

[Roberta Novielli]

>3. Actor Okuda Eiji's first film as a director, Shojo, has apparently
>been selected to show in the international critics week section at this
>year's Venice Film Festival.


It has been selected and today I'm going to interview Okuda for the
catalogue of the festival. The International Critic Week only selects first
works -- last year's Japanese movie was _ Scout Man_, and Okuda's Shojo is
a good debut.

Shojo is a very interesting movie based on a short novel by Renjo Mikihiko,
shot by Ishii Hirokazu (Minazuki - Mochizuki Rokuro), written by Narushima
Izuru (Koi gokudo - Mochizuki) and Manabe Katsuhiko (Suri - Kuroki Kazuo);
art director is Hibino Katsuhiko. I think it has good chances to win the
prize in Venice.




Roberta Novielli
Dipartimento di Studi sull'Asia Orientale
Universita' Ca' Foscari, Ca' Cappello, San Polo 2035
30125 VENEZIA (Italy)
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