PARKS

Timelines Converge in the Ode to Inokashira

Venue: Theatre Shinjuku
May 14 (Sun), 2017, 11:00
Official website: www.parks100.jp/
Theater website: www.ttcg.jp/theatre_shinjuku/
Theater website: http://theatre-shinjuku.ttcgreserve.jp/TTSJ/schedule/index.php#schdule
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzp4GDoiLYc
Tariff:  General: ￥1,800 / Students: ￥1,500 / Members: ￥1,300 / Seniors: ￥1,100

Title: PARKS パークス (Parks)
Director: Natsuki Seta (瀬田なつき)
Duration: 118 mins

Parks, by Natsuki Seta (A Liar and a Broken Girl), marks the director’s long-awaited return to feature filmmaking. An incredibly inventive celebration of the 100^th anniversary of Inokashira Park in Kichijoji, the film stars Ai Hashimoto as a college student and Mei Nagano as a high-school girl she meets when the latter comes looking for an address on old love letters her father wrote.

Together, they follow clues that eventually lead them to Shota Sometani (star of her debut feature), who then finds an old reel-to-reel tape recording of a love song. But the tape is damaged, the song stops in the middle, and the newfound friends becomes obsessed with trying to recreate the missing portions. Soon, the past, present and future start converging in the park, in a charming, bittersweet story filled with touches of magical realism.

Fans of the three young stars and of Inokashira Park and its environs will be amply rewarded by the visual virtuosity of Parks; and you’ll be humming the love song for days afterward.

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