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In Those Days

IMAIZUMI Rikiya

Japan2021117min Korean Premiere

Synopsis

Having failed to get into graduate school, with no girlfriend, no money, and no prospects of success with his band, Tsurugi's life has reached rock bottom. One day, after watching the video of Aya Matsuura's song “Momoiro Kataomoi”, he becomes obsessed with the idol singers of “Hello! Project”, and plunges into the idol geek lifestyle. However, as time passes, he and his buddies all find other things just as important as the idols and begin to move on.

Diretor

IMAIZUMI Rikiya

Won the Mito Short Film Festival Grand Prix for Stop Jerking Off(2007) and the Tama New Wave Grand Prix for Two-Timer(2009). He made his commercial feature film debut with the music documentary Tama no Eiga in 2010. I Catch a Terrible Cat(2012) was screened at numerous film festivals overseas, and won a Best Directing Award at the 12th Transilvania International Film Festival. His filmography also includes Sad Tea(2013), Their Distance(2016), Same Old, Same Old(2017), Just Only Love(2019), his(2020) and so on.

Credit

Producer
KINO Yoshi
Screenplay
TOMINAGA Masanori
Author of the Original Work
TSURUGI Mikito
Cinematographer
IWANAGA Hiroshi
Editor
SATO Takashi
Sound
NEMOTO Asuka
Music
YAMAZAKI Go
Production Design
SATOSU Yukihisa
Sales
Nikkatsu Corporation