Days in the Shade

In modern-day Kanazawa, writer Tokuda Shūsei returns to his hometown and is quietly drawn to Okine, the daughter of a fading inn. Inspired by four of Shūsei’s works, director Shinji Aoyama (Desert Moon) transforms the inner world of a Meiji-era novelist into a meditative film that drifts between memory and the present, culminating in a luminous live performance that dissolves the boundary between art and life.

• Release date
• August 7, 2003
• Runtime
• 43 min
• Genres
• Documentary, Drama, History
• Director
• Shinji Aoyama

Cast

Kyusaku Shimada Maho Toyota

T

Tao Nashimoto