The Asadas (Japanese: 浅田家!) is a 2020 Japanese biographical drama film written by Ryōta Nakano and Tomoe Kanno and directed by Nakano. The film was part of the official selection for the Warsaw Film Festival and the 26th Busan International Film Festival.

The Asadas
Directed byRyōta Nakano
Written byRyōta Nakano
Tomoe Kanno
Based onAsada-ke and Album no Chikara
by Masashi Asada
Starring
CinematographyHironori Yamazaki
Edited bySōichi Ueno
Music byTakashi Watanabe
Production
companies
Toho Pictures,
Bridgehead,
Pipeline
Distributed byToho
Release date
  • October 2, 2020 (2020-10-02) (Japan)
Running time
127 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Box office¥1.21 billion

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Masashi Asada is the gifted but irresponsible youngest son in a family, and a photographer. His work initially revolves around taking staged photos of his family, depicting an ideal world where they do their dream jobs. Asada publishes his book, which has mediocre sales, and turns to his childhood crush for support. As his book starts to take off, he starts getting requests from average families for him to take photos of them.[1] When the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake happens, he volunteers to help cleaning and sorting out photographs from the family's victims.[2] As part of this, he does some soul searching and realises the value of family.[3][4] The main character is based on the real-life photographer, Masashi Asada.[1]

Production

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Filming took place in 2020, and it was distributed by Bridgehard in Europe and Toho Studios in the rest of the world.[5]

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ a b "THE ASADAS (Asadake!) | FCCJ". www.fccj.or.jp. Retrieved 2021-06-10.
  2. ^ "Busan International Film Festival 6-15 October, 2021". www.biff.kr. Retrieved 2021-06-10.
  3. ^ Kotzathanasis, Panos (2021-01-09). "Film Review: The Asadas (2020) by Ryota Nakano". Asian Movie Pulse. Retrieved 2021-06-10.
  4. ^ philipbrasor (2020-10-03). "Review: The Asadas". philipbrasor.com. Retrieved 2021-06-10.
  5. ^ Shackleton2021-02-02T11:37:00+00:00, Liz. "Ryota Nakano's 'The Asadas' scores sales to France, Korea, Taiwan". Screen. Retrieved 2021-06-10.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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