Hotori no Sakuko
3 years on from hospitalité, Kiki Sugino and Koji Fukada are back again with this socially-conscious film about a 18-year-old girl in-between adolescence and adulthood who spends a summer in a valley and enjoys romance. Sakuko, a 18-year-old girl studying for her university entrance exams, decides to accompany her aunt Mikie on a trip to a seaside town. There she befriends Takashi, a refugee from Fukushima who has dropped out of high school and works at a motel run by Ukichi, a friend of Mikie. In-between childhood and adulthood, Sakuko starts to understand the difficulties of becoming an adult.
Genre: Drama
Actor: Fumi Nikaidô , Kanji Furutachi , Taiga , Kiki Sugino , Mayu Tsuruta , Takashi Ohtake , Ena Koshino , Natsuko Hori , Bryerly Long , Hiroko Matsuda , Kôtarô Shiga
Director: Kôji Fukada
Duration: 125 min
Quality: SD
Release: 2013
IMDb: 6.9