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FUKU-CHAN OF FUKUFUKU FLATS (FUKUFUKUSO NO FUKU-CHAN)
DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, ITALY
Local title : LE INCREDIBILI AVVENTURE DI FUKU-CHAN
 
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Completed - JAPANESE - Comedy - 110 minutes

Log Line

'Fine Totally Fine' director Yosuke Fujita's heartwarming comedy puts famous Japanese comedianne Miyuki Oshima of Morisanchu valiantly in the role of a middle-aged male worker 'Fuku-chan' whose long-standing fear of women leaves him in a complex situation when a women from his past returns...

Year of production : 2014

Director(s) : Yosuke FUJITA
Writer(s) : Yosuke FUJITA
Cast : Asami MIZUKAWA, Kami HIRAIWA, Kanji FURUTACHI, Mei KUROKAWA, Miyuki OSHIMA, Toshiyuki KITAMI, Yosiyosi ARAKAWA

Producer(s) : Adam TOREL (Third Window Films), James LIU (Joint Entertainment), Sabrina BARACETTI (TUCKER FILMS)

Synopsis

32-year-old Tatsuo Fukuda, nickname “Fuku-chan” (Miyuki Oshima), is a painter who lives in a run-down apartment complex called Fukufuku Flats. He has been a resident ever since he moved to Tokyo after graduating from junior high school in rural Tochigi Prefecture, and has held the same job the whole time. He spends his days working up a sweat painting buildings, his nights mediating disputes between the other denizens of Fukufuku Flats, and his days off flying handmade kites down by the riverside.
Fuku-chan is a popular guy who treats everyone equally and with kindness, but romance is his Achilles heel, which causes him to totally mess up a date arranged by his workmate Shimacchi (Yoshiyoshi Arakawa).
One day, an unfamiliar woman turns up at Fukufuku Flats. When she tells Fuku-chan her name, he is astonished. It is Chiho, his first love from his junior high school days who he has not seen for around 20 years, and she has come to apologize for something that happened in their past. As Fuku-chan allows himself to get caught up in Chiho's quest to become a photographer, he begins to fall in love all over again with this woman who was responsible for the traumatizing incident that led to his fear of women...

Production

Country(ies) : JAPAN

Financing plan : Third Window Films - UK
Tucker Film - Italy
Joint Entertainment - Taiwan
Rapid Eye Movies - Germany

Start of shooting : October 2013

GERMANY RAPID EYE MOVIE
ITALY TUCKER FILM (UD
TAIWAN JOINT ENTERTAIN
UNITED KIN Jul 13, 2015 THIRD WINDOW FI


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Festivals and Awards

Fantasia IFF 2014 Official Selection


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