Kakera: A Piece of Our Life ( Kakera ) ( A Piece of Our Life )

Kakera: A Piece of Our Life (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Kakera
Alternate Title: A Piece of Our Life
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Stockholm Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Japanese ( Dolby Surround )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
107 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2009 and produced in:
Japan ( India, Eastern Asia )

Directed By:
Momoko Andô

Written By:
Erika Sakurazawa
Momoko Andô

Actors:
Hikari Mitsushima
Eriko Nakamura
Ken Mitsuishi
Tasuku Nagaoka
Rino Katase
Toshie Negishi
Kageki Shimoda
Masahiko Tsugawa

Synopsis:

Based on the best-selling manga Love Vibes by Erika Sakurazawa and featuring a soundtrack by James Iha, former guitarist of Smashing Pumpkins, the debut feature of Momoko Andô, one of the members of this year s festival Jury, is a delicately-nuanced portrait of two very different women. Haru, a college student, is frustrated by the lack of any real spark between her and her slobbish and indifferent boyfriend, who only seems to be interested in her for sex. One day, while brooding over a cappuccino in a cafe, she catches the eye of Riko. Riko joins her table and the two strike up a conversation in which she explains her job as a medical artist , something slightly different from a prosthetics, in that rather than create body parts that attempt to emulate the function of those lost through accident and disease, her role is to cure the psychological traumas arising from the patient s physical deficiencies by balancing body and soul, creating parts that aesthetically make up for the loss. While Haru might be physically intact, Riko sees in her a certain emotional wanting to which she might provide a cure, and the two begin an all-encompassing relationship that draws Haru away from her dissatisfying routine and into a new and more emotionally fulfilling area of her life.

KAKERA - A PIECE OF OUR LIFE is writer/director Momoko Ando's pleasing adaptation of Erika Sakurazawa's classic manga LOVE VIBES and is an intimate portrait of two very different women.

The story of the relationship between a college student whose relationship with her boyfriend is going nowhere and a bisexual medical artist who makes prosthetic body parts.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 15 August, 2010.

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