Remembering Every Night

Subete no Yoru wo Omoidasu

64th TIFF: Greek Premiere

What mysteries might unfold from a day in the everyday lives of three women in Tama New Town, the sprawling Tokyo suburb that has strayed far from its ambitious 1960s plan to alleviate the city's housing problem? Yui Kiyohara responds with an ethereal film that navigates the boundaries of cinematic fiction. It captures the pulse of distinct individual trajectories, seemingly disconnected and only tangentially related, to surgically unveil the invisible thread connecting the urban landscape with its human geography. Special mention goes to the organic editing, inherently open to how female individuality chooses to navigate its own context. It is utterly dedicated to capturing the diverse rhythms that only an urban case study like this can genuinely discern.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Direction: Yui Kiyohara

Script: Yui Kiyohara

Cinematography: Yukiko Iioka

Editing: Azusa Yamazaki

Sound: Young Chang Hwang

Music: Jon No Son

Actors: Kumi Hyodo, Minami Ohba, Ai Mikami, Guama Uchida, Tadashi Okujno, Shintaro Yuya, Mizuho Nojima

Production: Pia Film Festival

Producers: Mayumi Amano

Format: DCP

Color: Color

Production Country: Japan

Production Year: 2022

Duration: 117'

Contact: Parallax Films

Awards/Distinctions: Forward Future Award Jury Special Mention – Beijing IFF 2023

Yui Kiyohara

Yui Kiyohara was born in Tokyo in 1992. Our House, her feature debut, won the Grand Prize at the Pia Film Festival in 2017 and internationally premiered at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival in the Forum section. It went to the 18th Curitiba International Film Festival and won the Grand Prix. It also won the Best Director of the 2018 Asian New Talent Award in Shanghai.