Teen actress and comedic moody star of Hirobumi Watanabe‘s 2023 film “Techno Brothers”, Asuna Yanagi, has a proclaimed case of the film bug as she has poured all her soul and effort into “Rainy Blue“, her debut as a writer and director. It’s a feature film where the line between reality and fiction is thin and blurry – so much so that she also starred in the film as the protagonist, Aoi.

Rainy Blue is screening at Osaka Asian Film Festival

Aoi is a high school student in Tamana City, Kumamoto Prefecture, in the critical year where you must decide what your academic path is going to be and especially where it’s going to take you. After an unfortunate stunt with fireworks that almost burned down the school, Aoi and her two schoolmates are punished for summer and forced to join an extracurricular club. Aoi, almost by chance, joins the Film Society,...