'Left-Handed Girl' Gets Japan Release Date on August 14
The film extends the indie iPhone-shot lineage of Sean Baker's 'Tangerine' into a personal family drama that earned an Oscar shortlist slot.
Key Facts
- 'Left-Handed Girl' opens in Japanese theaters on August 14 under the title '左利きの少女'.
- The film was Taiwan's Oscar entry and made the final shortlist of 15 for the 98th Academy Awards in the International Feature Film category.
- The story follows five-year-old Yi-jin, a left-handed girl scolded by her grandfather for using her 'devil's hand'.
- Director Tsou Shih-ching based the script on her own childhood experience of being pressured to switch hands.
- The film was shot on an iPhone, a method Tsou's collaborator Sean Baker used for 'Tangerine'.
Reporting from 1 source: Cinema Today.
Tsou Shih-ching's 'Left-H handed Girl', Taiwan's Oscar entry that was shortlisted for the 98th Academy Awards, will open in Japanese theaters on August 14. The film, shot on an iPhone, follows a left-handed girl in Taipei's Tonghua Street Night Market and is based on the director's own childhood.
Tsou Shih-ching's solo directorial debut 'Left-Handed Girl', which was selected as Taiwan's representative for the 98th Academy Awards and made the final shortlist of 15 in the International Feature Film category, will hit Japanese theaters on August 14 under the Japanese title '左利きの少女'. The film premiered at Cannes last year and has since won the Audience Award at Tokyo Filmex and the Grand Prize at the Rome Film Festival.
Shot on location at Taipei's Tonghua Street Night Market, the story follows five-year-old Yi-jin, a left-handed girl scolded by her grandfather for using her 'devil's hand'. Tsou, herself a former left-handed girl, based the script on her own experience of being pressured to switch hands. The film was shot on an iPhone, a method Tsou's longtime collaborator Sean Baker used for 'Tangerine', which she produced.
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Sources
- Cinema Today アカデミー賞台湾代表作品『左利きの少女』8月14日公開決定 iPhoneで捉えた人々の日常