Sketches of Kaitan City

Sketches of Kaitan City is a 2010 Japanese drama film directed by Kazuyoshi Kumakiri and starring Mitsuki Tanimura and Ryo Kase.

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Cast

Mitsuki Tanimura as Honami Ikawa
Pistol Takehara as Futa Ikawa
Ryo Kase as Haruo Meguro
Masaki Miura as Hiroshi Hagiya
Takashi Yamanaka as Makoto Kudou
Kaoru Kobayashi as Ryuzo Hika
Kaho Minami as Haruyo Hika

Release

The film had its world premiere at the Tokyo International Film Festival in 2010. It was released in Japan on 18 December 2010.

Reception

Dustin Chang of Twitch Film felt that the film "resembles strongly of the neo-neo realism of the Dardenne brothers' films but without their sense of hope". Meanwhile, Maggie Lee of The Hollywood Reporter noted Kazuyoshi Kumakiri's "low key but tender depictions of working class people and subtle assimilation of socio-economical realities, redolent of the works of Jia Zhangke and Wang Bing's West of the Tracks".