A delicate yet deeply felt portrait of that ephemeral time of life that is adolescence, the 60-minute featurette “Moonless Dawn” is a young work from young director/writer Harika Abe, and when I say young I certainly don’t mean green or juvenile, but on he contrary I mean fresh, with a flourishing creative drive and the pulse of its target audience. Winner of Moosic Lab 2018’s Actor Award “Moonless Dawn” is now streaming via the Japanese Film Festival Magazine.
“Moonless Dawn” follows three teenagers facing the sense of helplessness in dealing with pre-adulthood and the loss of reference points that it inevitably brings with it. Kou (Yuzu Aoki) is lost in a father/son relationship he simply cannot fix, where the father’s alienation and despair constitute an unfair load on Kou’s shoulder. Saki (Haruka Echigo) too has family turmoils; her parents are arguing all the time and...
“Moonless Dawn” follows three teenagers facing the sense of helplessness in dealing with pre-adulthood and the loss of reference points that it inevitably brings with it. Kou (Yuzu Aoki) is lost in a father/son relationship he simply cannot fix, where the father’s alienation and despair constitute an unfair load on Kou’s shoulder. Saki (Haruka Echigo) too has family turmoils; her parents are arguing all the time and...
- 4/3/2020
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
About the Film
A delicate yet deeply felt portrait of that ephemeral time of life that is adolescence, the 60-minute featurette “Moonless Dawn” is a young work from young director/writer Harika Abe, and when I say young I certainly don’t mean green or juvenile, but on he contrary I mean fresh, with a flourishing creative drive and the pulse of its target audience. Winner of Moosic Lab 2018’s Actor Award “Moonless Dawn” is now streaming via the Japanese Film Festival Magazine.
Synopsis
“Moonless Dawn” follows three teenagers dealing with pre-adulthood and the loss of reference points that it inevitably takes with it. Kou (Yuzu Aoki) is lost in a father/son relationship he simply cannot fix, where the father’s alienation and despair constitute an unfair load on Kou’s shoulder. Saki (Haruka Echigo) too has family turmoils; her parents are arguing all the time and the male...
A delicate yet deeply felt portrait of that ephemeral time of life that is adolescence, the 60-minute featurette “Moonless Dawn” is a young work from young director/writer Harika Abe, and when I say young I certainly don’t mean green or juvenile, but on he contrary I mean fresh, with a flourishing creative drive and the pulse of its target audience. Winner of Moosic Lab 2018’s Actor Award “Moonless Dawn” is now streaming via the Japanese Film Festival Magazine.
Synopsis
“Moonless Dawn” follows three teenagers dealing with pre-adulthood and the loss of reference points that it inevitably takes with it. Kou (Yuzu Aoki) is lost in a father/son relationship he simply cannot fix, where the father’s alienation and despair constitute an unfair load on Kou’s shoulder. Saki (Haruka Echigo) too has family turmoils; her parents are arguing all the time and the male...
- 4/2/2020
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
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