Let Me Hear It Barefoot

Kudo Riho

P&I Selection 2022

  • 127'
  • Japan
  • 2021

Naomi, a student dropout, only believes in things he can touch. However, when he really wants to touch someone, he recoils. As is the case when he befriends Maki, a happy-go-lucky young man who lives with Midori, a blind woman who dreamily expounds about places she has never been. When Midori becomes seriously ill, Maki and Naomi send her tapes from an imaginary trip around the world. Their relationship becomes more intimate whilst recording, but they only dare engage in rough, painful horseplay.

Hesitations, feints, social pressure and awkwardness colours this sensitively told tale of two young men as they become intimate with one another – a rare story of a gay relationship in Japanese indie film. Simultaneously, Kudo Riho expands on matters by depicting the obstacles to finding one's way in life, the fraught contact between Naomi and his father, and the tension between what is and isn’t real.

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Available on Festival Scope Pro from 26 January 9:00 CET to 14 February 9:00 CET



Kudo Riho

P&I Selection 2022

  • 127'
  • Japan
  • 2021
Director
Kudo Riho
Country of production
Japan
Year
2021
Festival Edition
P&I Selection 2022
Length
127'
Medium
DCP
Original title
Hadashi de narashite misero
Language
Japanese
Producer
Amano Mayumi
Production Company
Erice Company
Sales
Nikkatsu Corporation
Screenplay
Kudo Riho
Cinematography
Sasaki Yasuyuki
Editor
Yamazaki Azusa
Sound Design
Hwang Young Chang
Music
Fujii Soma
Cast
Sasaki Shion, Suwa Shuri, Ito Kaho, Komoto Masahiro, Fubuki Jun
Director
Kudo Riho
Country of production
Japan
Year
2021
Festival Edition
P&I Selection 2022
Length
127'
Medium
DCP
Original title
Hadashi de narashite misero
Language
Japanese
Producer
Amano Mayumi
Production Company
Erice Company
Sales
Nikkatsu Corporation
Screenplay
Kudo Riho
Cinematography
Sasaki Yasuyuki
Editor
Yamazaki Azusa
Sound Design
Hwang Young Chang
Music
Fujii Soma
Cast
Sasaki Shion, Suwa Shuri, Ito Kaho, Komoto Masahiro, Fubuki Jun