37 Seconds

{{short description|2019 film}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2020}}

{{Infobox film

| name = 37 Seconds

| image = 37 Seconds.jpg

| caption = Film poster

| director = Hikari

| producer = Hikari
Peter Maez
Shin Yamaguchi

| writer = Hikari

| starring = Mei Kayama

| music = ASKA

| cinematography = Stephen Blahut
Tomoo Ezaki

| editing = Thomas A. Krueger

| studio = Knockonwood
Hikari Films

| distributor = Films Boutique
Netflix

| released = {{film date|2019|2|9|Berlin|df=yes}}

| runtime = 115 minutes{{cite web | url=https://www.tribecafilm.com/filmguide/37-seconds-2019 | title=37 Seconds | work=Tribeca Film Festival | access-date=13 September 2019 }}{{Dead link|date=July 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

| country = Japan

| language = Japanese

}}

37 Seconds is a 2019 Japanese drama film written and directed by Hikari. The film features actress Mei Kayama, who has cerebral palsy, as 23-year-old Yuma Takada, a talented artist who wants to make her name in manga. A sympathetic magazine editor (Yuka Itaya) tells Takada her art is technically proficient but betrays her lack of worldly experience. Criticizing her depictions of sex as unconvincing, the editor tells the young woman, who uses a wheelchair to get around, to lose her virginity and then return.

This sparks a voyage of self-discovery as she rebels against her over-protective mother and seeks out new experiences, trying to assert her budding independence.

The film was screened at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival{{cite web |url=https://www.berlinale.de/en/presse/pressemitteilungen/panorama/pan-presse-detail_49172.html |title=Panorama 2019: Breaking Free |work=Berlinale |access-date=16 February 2019 |archive-date=1 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190201013632/https://www.berlinale.de/en/presse/pressemitteilungen/panorama/pan-presse-detail_49172.html |url-status=dead }} and won the Audience Award and the International Confederation of Art Cinemas’ Art Cinema Award in the festival's Panorama section.{{Cite web|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/02/17/entertainment-news/japanese-director-hikaris-37-seconds-wins-prizes-berlin-film-festival/|title=Japanese director Hikari's '37 Seconds' wins prizes at Berlin Film Festival|date=17 February 2019|website=The Japan Times|language=en-US|access-date=20 February 2019}}