This looks like a winner. The first trailer is out already for a Japanese film premiering at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival this May. Renoir is the second feature film from Japanese director Chie Hayakawa, also at Cannes three years ago with her feature directorial debut titled Plan 75 (also a very good film that not many have seen). Renoir is an emotional, poignant coming-of-age story about resilience, the healing power of the imagination and a traumatized family struggling for connection. Featuring Yui Suzuki as Fuki in her first ever film role. Renoir is the story of an 11-year-old girl, Fuki, who lives with her father, who is fighting an illness, and her mother, who is busy with work in the summer in the late 80s. In addition to Hikari Ishida as Fuki’s mother, Shiko, and Lily Franky as her father, Keiji – who have won numerous film awards – the adults Fuki encounters include Ayumi Nakajima, Yumi Kawai, who is making her big break following her performance in Plan 75, and Ryuta Bando. From this trailer, it kind of looks like a modern version of the seminal classic Tokyo Story – though set in the late 80s, not in contemporary Japan. Another must see. // Continue Reading ›
