Hotori no Sakuko
3 years on from hospitalité, Kiki Sugino and Koji Fukada are back again with this socially-conscious film about a 18-year-old girl in-between adolescence and adulthood who spends a summer in a valley and enjoys romance. Sakuko, a 18-year-old girl studying for her university entrance exams, decides to accompany her aunt Mikie on a trip to a seaside town. There she befriends Takashi, a refugee from Fukushima who has dropped out of high school and works at a motel run by Ukichi, a friend of Mikie. In-between childhood and adulthood, Sakuko starts to understand the difficulties of becoming an adult.
Genre: Drama
Director: K?ji Fukada
Actors: Bryerly Long, Ena Koshino, Fumi Nikaidô, Hiroko Matsuda, Kanji Furutachi, Kiki Sugino, Kôtarô Shiga, Mayu Tsuruta, Natsuko Hori, Taiga, Takashi Ohtake