Paco and the Magical Book | |
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Film Poster | |
Kanji | パコと魔法の絵本 |
Revised Hepburn | Pako to Mahō no Ehon |
Directed by | Tetsuya Nakashima |
Screenplay by | Nobuhiro Monma Tetsuya Nakashima |
Story by | Hirohito Goto |
Produced by | Yutaka Suzuki |
Starring | Kōji Yakusho Ayaka Wilson Satoshi Tsumabuki |
Cinematography | Shoichi Ato Atsushi Ozawa |
Edited by | Yoshiyuki Koike |
Music by | Gabriele Roberto |
Production companies | Cine Bazar TV Tokyo Hakuhodo DY Media Partners DesperaDo Parco Horipro Gentosha Amuse Soft Licri TV Osaka Columbia Music Entertainment TV Aichi Television Hokkaido TVQ Kyushu Broadcasting TV Setouchi |
Distributed by | Toho |
Release date |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Box office | $22,679,633 |
Paco and the Magical (Picture) Book (パコと魔法の絵本, Pako to Mahō no Ehon) is a 2008 Japanese film written and directed by Tetsuya Nakashima, based on a play by Hirohito Gotō.
It was shown at the Munich Asian Filmfest in 2008 and has been nominated for three awards for the 2009 Asian Film Awards. Actors Kōji Yakusho and Ayaka Wilson and director Tetsuya Nakashima have been nominated for the 2008 Japanese Academy Award.
Synopsis
The movie is set in a hospital where "strange" people are sent.
One of the older, gruffer patients, is Onuki, a business owner who is sent to the hospital after a heart attack, thinks little of the other hospital patients, and hopes to die without being remembered by such "worthless" people. Another patient, a young girl named Paco, is in the hospital due to a memory disorder- she can only remember the events of one day at a time. Each day she reads a pop-up children's book, and often asks Onuki to read to her. Each day it is a new story for her.
Eventually, the two of them develop a friendship, and Onuki decides to enlist the help of the other people in the hospital to perform a play of the book, hoping it will help Paco.
Cast
- Ōnuki (Prince Gama): Kōji Yakusho
- Paco: Ayaka Wilson
- Muromachi (the demon crawfish): Satoshi Tsumabuki
- Tamako (the ricefish): Anna Tsuchiya
- Horigome (the dragonfly larva): Sadao Abe
- Kōichi (the water strider): Ryō Kase
- Masami (the swamp shrimp witch): Eiko Koike
- Ryūmonji (the whirligig beetle): Takaya Yamauchi
- Kinomoto (Queen Gama): Jun Kunimura
- Takita (the fish): Gekidan Hitori
- Asano (the pond snail): Takaya Kamikawa
References
- "Paco and the Magical Picture Book". Boxofficemojo. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
- "Asia Filmfest 2009 | Munich, Oct. 29 - Nov. 8 | Berlin, Nov. 13 - 15, 2009". Archived from the original on 19 July 2012. Retrieved 1 February 2009.
- Paco and the Magical Book (2008) - Awards - IMDb. Retrieved 30 May 2024 – via www.imdb.com.
- "日本アカデミー賞公式サイト". Archived from the original on 22 February 2009. Retrieved 10 February 2009.
External links
- Official Site (in Japanese)
- Paco and the Magical (Picture) Book at IMDb
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