Single8 - CinemAsia • Nederlands Filmhuis Denhaag

KONAKA Kazuya

Single8 - CinemAsia

Director KONAKA Kazuya’s semi-autobiographical love letter to the old days of analogue filmmaking, centred around a high school cinephile who teams up with his classmates to make his no-budget science fiction masterpiece for a class project.

In the summer of 1978, high school student Hiroshi, who is crazy about Star Wars, builds a miniature spaceship with his friend Yoshio and begins filming it with an 8mm camera. In order to complete it as a full movie, Hiroshi proposes it as the class's cultural festival project. He and his friends come up with a science fiction love story called “Time Reverse,” where aliens attempt to reverse Earth's time and redo human evolution, inspired by the reverse shooting function of their camera. But will Hiroshi’s crush Natsumi accept the lead role?

A nostalgic, feel-good comedy that harkens back to director KONAKA Kazuya’s early days as a teenage filmmaker, Single8 celebrates youth, creativity, and the life-changing possibilities of cinema. It is a welcome addition to the Japanese film-within-a-film genre in the likes of One Cut of the Dead (2017). By focusing on the Single 8 camera and analogue filmmaking, Konaka adds a refreshing and joyful contribution to the long list of films celebrating filmmaking.

CinemAsia 2025

This film is part of CinemAsia on Tour 2025 and will be screening from May 9 to 11 at Filmhuis Den Haag. CinemAsia is the gateway to Asian cinema in the Netherlands. The diverse festival program ranges from major Asian blockbusters to independent films and inspiring documentaries that reflect a rapidly changing Asia. Additionally, CinemAsia serves as a creative platform that enhances the visibility of Asian communities in the media and encourages diversity in storytelling within Dutch media and society.

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Regisseur KONAKA Kazuya
Cast UEMURA Yu, TAKAISHI Akari, FUKUZAWA Noa
Land Japan
Taal Japans
Ondertiteling Engels
Speelduur 113 min

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