18th New York Asian Film Festival

Jun 28 - Jul 14, 2019

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North American Premiere

Lying to Mom

鈴木家の嘘

Suzuki Koichi, a 30-something hikikomori shut-in, allows his mother to dotingly tend to his needs. When she discovers that Koichi has killed himself, the shock is so great she loses consciousness, and her memory of that day. Worried the truth might prompt a relapse, her husband and daughter lie to her. The fabrications just keep snowballing… until the family seems to implode with unspoken secrets. Lying to Mom marks an impressively mature debut by Nojiri, a longtime AD (for veterans Kumakiri Kazuyoshi, Toyoda Toshiaki, Hashiguchi Ryosuke and Ishii Yuya), who laces his tale with as much humor as grief.

Director: Nojiri Katsumi
Screenwriter: Nojiri Katsumi
Cast: Kishibe Ittoku, Hara Hideko, Kiryu Mai, Kase Ryo, Kishimoto Kayoko, Omori Nao
Languages: Japanese with English subtitles
2018; 133 min.; DCP

SCHEDULE:

Wednesday July 10, 6:00pm
Film at Lincoln Center

Director Nojiri Katsumi in attendance (Introduction and Q&A)

Nojiri Katsumi
野尻克己

Nojiri Katsumi honed his skills as an assistant director with such luminary mentors as Toyoda Toshiaki (Blue Spring, 2002; Hanging Garden, 2005), Kumakiri Kazuyoshi (Bullet Over Tears, 2007; Sketches of Kaitan City, 2010) Omori Tatsushi (A Crowd of Three, 2010; Tada’s Do-It-All House, 2011; Seto and Utsumi, 2015), Takeuchi Hideki (Thermae Romae, 2012), Ishii Yuya (The Great Passage, 2013) and Hashiguchi Ryosuke (Three Stories of Love, 2014). He also directed several direct-to-video releases, as well as the 2012 TV series Chat Noir Lucy. His big-screen debut, Lying to Mom, is semi-autobiographical, and earned him the Japanese Cinema Splash Best Film award at the 2018 Tokyo International Film Festival.