Paco and the Magical (Picture) Book (パコと魔法の絵本, Pako to Mahō no Ehon) is a 2008 Japanese film written and directed by Tetsuya Nakashima, based on a play by Hirohito Gotō.
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| Kanji | パコと魔法の絵本 |
| Revised Hepburn | Pako to Mahō no Ehon |
| Directed by | Tetsuya Nakashima |
| Screenplay by | Nobuhiro Monma Tetsuya Nakashima |
| Story by | Hirohito Goto |
| Produced by | Yutaka Suzuki |
| Starring | Kōji Yakusho Ayaka Wilson Satoshi Tsumabuki |
| Cinematography | Shoichi Ato Atsushi Ozawa |
| Edited by | Yoshiyuki Koike |
| Music by | Gabriele Roberto |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | Toho |
Release date |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Box office | $22,679,633[1] |
It was shown at the Munich Asian Filmfest in 2008[2] and has been nominated for three awards for the 2009 Asian Film Awards.[3] Actors Kōji Yakusho and Ayaka Wilson and director Tetsuya Nakashima have been nominated for the 2008 Japanese Academy Award.[4]
Synopsis
editThe movie is set in a hospital where "strange" people are sent.
One of the older, gruffer patients, is Onuki, a business owner who is sent to the hospital after a heart attack, thinks little of the other hospital patients, and hopes to die without being remembered by such "worthless" people. Another patient, a young girl named Paco, is in the hospital due to a memory disorder- she can only remember the events of one day at a time. Each day she reads a pop-up children's book, and often asks Onuki to read to her. Each day it is a new story for her.
Eventually, the two of them develop a friendship, and Onuki decides to enlist the help of the other people in the hospital to perform a play of the book, hoping it will help Paco.
Cast
edit- Ōnuki (Prince Gama): Kōji Yakusho
- Paco: Ayaka Wilson
- Muromachi (the demon crawfish): Satoshi Tsumabuki
- Tamako (the ricefish): Anna Tsuchiya
- Horigome (the dragonfly larva): Sadao Abe
- Kōichi (the water strider): Ryō Kase
- Masami (the swamp shrimp witch): Eiko Koike
- Ryūmonji (the whirligig beetle): Takaya Yamauchi
- Kinomoto (Queen Gama): Jun Kunimura
- Takita (the fish): Gekidan Hitori
- Asano (the pond snail): Takaya Kamikawa
References
edit- ^ "Paco and the Magical Picture Book". Boxofficemojo. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
- ^ "Asia Filmfest 2009 | Munich, Oct. 29 - Nov. 8 | Berlin, Nov. 13 - 15, 2009". Archived from the original on 19 July 2012. Retrieved 1 February 2009.
- ^ Paco and the Magical Book (2008) - Awards - IMDb. Retrieved 30 May 2024 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "日本アカデミー賞公式サイト". Archived from the original on 22 February 2009. Retrieved 10 February 2009.
External links
edit- Official Site (in Japanese)
- Paco and the Magical (Picture) Book at IMDb
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