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Wikipedia article
'37 Seconds' is a 2019 Japanese drama film written and directed by . The film features amateur actress Mei Kayama, who has cerebral palsy, as 23-year-old Yuma Takada, a talented artist who wants to make her name in manga. A sympathetic magazine editor (Yuka Itaya) tells Takada her art is technically proficient but betrays her lack of worldly experience. Criticizing her depictions of sex as unconvincing, the editor tells the young woman, who uses a wheelchair to get around, to lose her virginity and then return.
The film was screened at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival and won the Audience Award and the International Confederation of Art Cinemas Art Cinema Award in the festival's Panorama section.
Cast
* Mei Kayama as Yuma Takada
* Misuzu Kanno as Kyoko Takada
* Shunsuke Dait as Toshiya
* Makiko Watanabe as Mai
* Minori Hagiwara as Sayaka
* Yuka Itaya as Fujimoto
* Shizuka Ishibashi as Physical Therapist
* Kiyohiko Shibukawa as Pimp
* Shhei Uno as Iketani
Release
The film had its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival, and also played at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival and was also screened at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival in the Contemporary World Cinema section. The international sales company Films Boutique holds the rights, while Netflix holds distribution rights for the United States and Canada.
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