Free Stone Productions, one of Japan’s leading indie film sales firms, is poised to bring a big slate to Cannes. It has added three new titles and a catalog. And it expects to add more before the market gets underway.
Highest profile is the recently-released animation film “Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko” directed by Watanabe Ayumu. The film is a slice of life story about a chubby and cheerful single mother who lives on a houseboat. The company is handling rights only in mainland China, Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong/Macau. Studio 4C is handling the rest of the world.
Live action additions are represented by “Hazard Lights,” and “Junretsuger.”
The former is a drama directed by Sakaki Hideo (“Disregarded People”) about a driver at a chauffeur service who is forced to pair up with a younger mysterious partner and later to face up to his difficult past.
“Junretsuger” is...
Highest profile is the recently-released animation film “Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko” directed by Watanabe Ayumu. The film is a slice of life story about a chubby and cheerful single mother who lives on a houseboat. The company is handling rights only in mainland China, Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong/Macau. Studio 4C is handling the rest of the world.
Live action additions are represented by “Hazard Lights,” and “Junretsuger.”
The former is a drama directed by Sakaki Hideo (“Disregarded People”) about a driver at a chauffeur service who is forced to pair up with a younger mysterious partner and later to face up to his difficult past.
“Junretsuger” is...
- 6/14/2021
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
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