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PACO to Maho no Ehon (2008)

Original Title: PACO to Maho no Ehon
English Title: PACO And The Magical Book
Genre: Fantasy / Drama
Format: 35mm / 105min / Color
Year of Production: 2008
Release Date (Japan): September 13, 2008
Production Company: PACO and the Magical Book Film Partners
Director: Tetsuya Nakashima
Producers: Kazumi Suzuki / Sei Matsumoto / Yutaka Suzuki / Morio Amagi / Yuji Ishida
Screenplay: Tetsuya Nakashima / Nobuhiro Monma
Director of Photography: Shoichi Ato / Atsushi Ozawa
Music: Gabriele Roberto
Main Cast: Koji Yakusho / Ayaka Wilson / Satoshi Tsumabuki

Synopsis

There once was a hospital where patients and even doctors & nurses were all weird. Above all, Onuki, a patient who built up his company all by himself from scratch, is a super cranky old man. One day, he meets up a girl called Paco, who cannot retail memory beyond one day due to a car accident. She is reading the same picture book everyday. Onuki starts bonding with Paco after some incident, and begins to doubt his way of living. He starts wanting to do something for Paco with his remaining life, and comes up with a brilliant idea. This pleases Paco, but their fate is…

About the Director

Born in 1959 in Fukuoka Japan, Tetsuya Nakashima won numerous awards as commercial director before moving into feature film directing and writing. “Kamikaze Girls (2004)” which was awarded a grand prize at Cannes Jr. Festival in 2006 and “Memories of Matsuko (2006)” which was awarded outstanding performance by an actress in a leading role, outstanding achievement in music and in film editing at JAPAN Academy Prize. Other works include “Beautiful Sunday (1998)” and “Summer Tale (1997)”.

Sales Company

Showgate, Inc.
Contact: Fumiki Yamazaki (Manager)
Email: yamazaki@showgate.jp
Phone: +81-3-5524-1863
www.showgate.jp

About the Sales Company

Showgate Inc. is a 100% subsidiary of Hakuhodo DY Media Partners Inc. Our main business is film distribution, production and acquisition. Showgate has handled a wide variety of films, such as“ROBO?ROCK (2007)”, “My Sister, My Love (2007)”, and “Tokyo Zombie (2006)”. More recent works include Tetsuya Nakajima’s latest film, “PACO and the Magical Book”, which combines full 3D CG characters with live action, and “SHAKARIKI!”, a youthful movie with a cycling road race theme.

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