The Story of Yonosuke
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{{Infobox film
| name = A Story of Yonosuke
| image = A Story of Yonosuke POSTER.jpg
| alt =
| caption =
| director = Shūichi Okita
| producer = Toshikazu Nishigaya
| writer =
| screenplay = Shirō Maeda
| story =
| based_on = {{based on|Yokomichi Yonosuke|Shūichi Yoshida}}
| narrator =
| starring = Kengo Kora
Yuriko Yoshitaka
Sōsuke Ikematsu
Ayumi Itō
Gō Ayano
| music =
| cinematography = Ryūto Kondō
| editing =
| studio =
| distributor = Showgate Inc.
| released = {{Film date|2013|2|23|Japan}}
| runtime = 160 minutes
| country = Japan
| language = Japanese
| budget =
| gross =
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{{Nihongo|A Story of Yonosuke|横道世之介|Yokomichi Yonosuke}} is a 2013 Japanese film directed by Shūichi Okita.{{cite web |url=http://www.tokyohive.com/2013/02/kora-kengo-yoshitaka-yuriko-attend-the-film-premiere-for-yokomichi-yonosuke/ |title=Kora Kengo & Yoshitaka Yuriko attend the film premiere for 'Yokomichi Yonosuke' |author=Shiso |date=2013-02-08 |access-date=2013-02-09 |work=tokyohive |publisher=6Theory Media, LLC.}}{{cite web |url=http://eiga.com/movie/57830/ |script-title=ja:横道世之介 |access-date=2013-02-09 |work=eiga.com |language=Japanese}} The theme song is called {{nihongo|"Ima wo Ikite"|今を生きて|Living in the Now}} and is performed by Asian Kung-Fu Generation.{{cite web |url=http://tower.jp/article/news/2012/12/07/n06 |title="アジカン、映画「横道世之介」主題歌"今を生きて"を2月にシングル・リリース" |publisher=Tower Records Japan |date=2012-12-07 |access-date=2013-11-29}}
The film was shown at the 13th Japanese Film Festival Nippon Connection in June 2013.{{cite web |url=http://www.filmbiz.asia/news/nippon-connection-reconnects |title=Nippon Connection reconnects |author=Stephen Cremin |date=24 February 2013 |access-date=27 June 2014 |work=Film Business Asia |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140924091513/http://www.filmbiz.asia/news/nippon-connection-reconnects |archive-date=24 September 2014}} It premiered in America on July 13, 2013 at the New York Asian Film Festival{{cite web |url=http://japansociety.org/event/a-story-of-yonosuke |title=A Story of Yonosuke |author=Japan Society |access-date=2013-11-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203034829/http://japansociety.org/event/a-story-of-yonosuke |archive-date=2013-12-03}}{{cite web |url=http://subwaycinema.com/nyaff13/schedule/ |title=Schedule |website=New York Asian Film Festival |author= |access-date=2024-07-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130705014931/http://subwaycinema.com/nyaff13/schedule/ |archive-date=5 July 2013 |url-status=dead}} and has also made an appearance at the San Diego Asian Film Festival{{cite web |url=https://festival.sdaff.org/2013/films/story-of-yonosuke/ |title=A Story of Yonosuke |website=San Diego Asian Film Festival 2013 |access-date=2024-07-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203050951/https://festival.sdaff.org/2013/films/story-of-yonosuke/ |archive-date=December 3, 2013 |url-status=dead}} and the Japanese Film Festival in Australia.{{cite web |url=http://japanesefilmfestival.net/jff_movie/a-story-of-yonosuke/ |title=A Story of Yonosuke (横道世之介) |access-date=2013-11-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203002240/http://japanesefilmfestival.net/jff_movie/a-story-of-yonosuke/ |archive-date=2013-12-03}}
Plot
The story is set in Tokyo in 1987 where Yonosuke Yokomichi has arrived from Nagasaki to study Business Administration at Hosei University. Relative to the other students his suit is crumpled and his hair is uncombed.
He meets Kuramochi, another unconventional student at the introductory meeting, and meets the pretty Yui Akutsu at the formal registration and they agree to explore together rather than be alone.
He encounters Chiharu, a would-be actress in a cafe, and she uses him to extort a car from a businessman. He tells this story to a new friend, Kato, who asks him to join on a double date. His date, Shoko Yosano, the daughter of a rich businessman, arrives in a chauffeur-driven car. They go to a cheap burger cafe but are forced to sit as two pairs. Shoko likes him and tracks him down to ask him to the pool where she introduces him to her half-brother, Katsuhiko, and his rich friends. Here he re-encounters the actress.
Shoko comes to visit him at his parents' house in a coastal village. The next day they go to the beach with friends. While they are having a potentially romantic solitary rendezvous on the beach during the night, their first kiss is disturbed by the arrival of a group of Vietnamese boat people on the beach, and during the confusion a baby is passed to them.
Cast
- Kengo Kora as Yonosuke Yokomichi
- Yuriko Yoshitaka as Shōko Yosano
- Sōsuke Ikematsu as Ippei Kuramochi
- Ayumi Itō as Chiharu
- Gō Ayano as Katō
- Aki Asakura
- Keiko Horiuchi as the mother of Shōko
- Mei Kurokawa
- Noriko Eguchi
- Arata Iura
- Jun Kunimura as the father of Shōko
- Kitarō as the father of Yonosuke
- Kimiko Yo as the mother of Yonosuke
Reception
It was chosen as the 3rd best film at the 23rd Japan Film Professional Awards{{cite web |url=http://www.filmbiz.asia/news/bozo-tops-japan-film-professional-awards |title=Bozo tops Japan Film Professional Awards |author=Kevin Ma |date=21 April 2014 |access-date=27 June 2014 |work=Film Business Asia |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140511174705/http://www.filmbiz.asia/news/bozo-tops-japan-film-professional-awards |archive-date=11 May 2014}} and as the 8th best Japanese film of the year by film magazine Eiga Geijutsu.{{cite web |url=http://www.filmbiz.asia/news/eiga-geijutsu-names-pecoross-best-film |title=Eiga Geijutsu names Pecoross best film |author=Kevin Ma |date=18 January 2014 |access-date=27 June 2014 |work=Film Business Asia |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140619040307/http://www.filmbiz.asia/news/eiga-geijutsu-names-pecoross-best-film |archive-date=19 June 2014}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://yonosuke-movie.com/}} {{in lang|ja}}
- {{IMDb title|2151915}}
{{Blue Ribbon Award for Best Film}}
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