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Kei Chika-ura is known for Complicity (2018), The Lasting Persimmon (2015) and Great Absence (2023).
- Writer, Producer, Director
- Kei Chikaura
Aug 2, 2023 · Kei Chika-ura returns to the Festival with this smartly observed, beautifully shot story about the reunion of a long-estranged father and his son amid lost...
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Sep 8, 2023 · Great Absence, the second film from Japanese director Kei Chika-ura, is receiving its world premiere in Toronto film festival’s Platform section.
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Oct 3, 2023 · Oct 3, 2023 10:46am PT. ‘Great Absence’ Review: A Son Discovers His Father in a Deft, Complex, Wrenching Dementia Drama. Kei Chika-ura's delicately devastating second feature excavates a life —...
Oct 2, 2023 · Kei Chika-ura: My father suddenly developed dementia, and when he entered the facility, the house was empty and before it fell into disrepair, I thought it would be great if a lot of people could come in and feel what it was like before the house collapses.
Feb 15, 2019 · Kei Chikaura was born in Japan in the year 1977. and before he got into filmmaking he majored in economics at the University of Osaka, while studying also film history. He learned the filmmaking trade while working for various production companies.
Tatsuya Fuji stars as a retired professor who shows signs of rapidly progressive dementia. A deeply moving and artfully multi-layered feature about reconciliation, love and mortality by director Kei Chika-ura.
