Last Chestnuts
Zhao Ye
Release year: 2010
Run time: 60 mins
Film type: Fiction
Synopsis
A woman who has been hospitalised in Tokyo travels to Kashihara, in Nara Prefecture, to search for her son. Her only clues to his whereabouts are her memories and some photos on a camera he left in the hospital. As she searches for the boy, the woman gets to know his friends and the beautiful landscape pf the surrounding region. But her dream of finding her son before she dies remains unfulfilled.
Director biography
Zhao Ye (1979, China) graduated from Beijing Film Academy in 2004. He directed his first short, the animation Cai Wei, in 2004. His début feature Ma Wu Jia (2007) screened at numerous international film festivals and won the Best Picture Award at the China Independent Film Festival.