The transferring coming-of-age drama “My Sunshine,” set in rural Japan, facilities on the bond between a queer figure-skating coach and his younger pupils who take a specific curiosity in him — and with life-defining penalties.
Movie Motion opens Hiroshi Okuyama’s 2024 Cannes Un Sure Regard nominee — and a movie that would’ve been his nation’s Greatest Worldwide Function choice had it not opted for Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s equally profitable “Cloud” — on September 19 in choose theaters. IndieWire shares the unique trailer beneath.
Extra on the movie courtesy of the official synopsis: “One winter on the Japanese island of Hokkaido, a younger boy named Takuya has resigned himself to the truth that he’s the worst participant on his ice hockey workforce. Whereas practising, he turns into transfixed by the determine skaters who share the ice rink, significantly Sakura, a rising star from Tokyo. Her coach, Arakawa, takes an curiosity in Takuya, seeing himself within the younger boy. He pairs the 2 up and trains them as a aggressive ice-dancing duo. Though tentative with one another at first, the youngsters finally develop nearer and type a deep bond with their supportive coach. However because the winter continues, unstated emotions start to floor and the concord the trio as soon as knew begins to falter.”
IndieWire’s evaluation (written by yours actually) referred to as the movie “as pretty and lilting as listening to Claude Debussy’s ‘Clair de Lune’ over a crackly document participant on a snow-flecked day, Japanese filmmaker Hiroshi Okuyama‘s second characteristic is a transferring coming-of-age drama about children dealing with as much as the troubles of maturity.”
The movie stars Keitatsu Koshiyama, Kiara Takanashi, Sôsuke Ikematsu, and Ryûya Wakaba. Along with taking part in Cannes 2024 and being nominated for the Queer Palm, “My Sunshine” additionally performed San Sebastián, Stockholm, Chicago, and extra festivals.
“My Sunshine” opens in choose theaters on Friday, September 19. Watch the trailer beneath.