WEB] Release date and time: Wednesday, August 21, 2024, 9:30 a.m. Screening of "Romantic Sense of Money" at Theatre Shinjuku Talk event with a variety of guests will be held from Friday, August 23!

Machi no Record will hold a late show screening of this film and a talk event at Theatre Shinjuku from August 23 (Fri.) to 27 (Tue.).

What is money? (Romantic Sense of Money), which won the Runner-up Grand Prize in the Feature Film Competition at the Tokyo Documentary Film Festival in 2023 and the Filmination Award at the 17th Tanabe-Benkei Film Festival, will be screened during the Tanabe-Benkei Film Festival Selection this summer, Theatre Shinjuku during the screening period of the Tanabe-Benkei Film Festival Selection. During the festival, a variety of guests will be invited to talk about the film each day.

In addition to directors who are close friends of the director, the comedy duo Tutorial, who are from the same hometown as Mayu Midoricha, and social system designer Kozo Takei, who also appears in the film, are scheduled to appear on stage at Theatre Shinjuku as guests on the 26th and 27th, respectively.

Romantic Financial Sense

Screening Schedule (Guests)

Friday, August 23, 20:30 - Screening

Post-screening talk event Ryo Ushimaru (Film director)

August 24 (Sat) 20:30 - Screening

Post-screening talk event: Makoto Sasaki (Film director), Tsuyoshi Shibata (Film director)

August 25 (Sun) 20:30 - Screening

Post-screening talk event: Vivian Sato (Film Critic)

August 26 (Monday) 20:30 - Screening

Post-screening talk event: Tutorial (Comedy duo)

August 27 (Tue) 21:05 - Talk

Pre-screening talk event: Kozo Takei (Social System Designer)

■Comments on the film

Romantic Sense of Money" is the film I was most fascinated by and loved at the Tanabe-Benkei Film Festival. I am sure there is an ideal world of dreams that lies ahead as we continue to ask unanswerable questions through "money". An unprecedented must-see enjoyment.

Isshin Inudo (Film director)

Bank of Japan notes start to look like mere paper.

Cardboard currency looks like the most exquisite jewelry.

A local currency adventure dedicated to those who are tired of money.

Welcome to ZIPANGU, the land of the grass, the trees, the insects, and the fish.

Tatsushi Fujiwara (historian)

Livelihood, economy, and family. Directors Mayu Midoricha and Ryuzo Saeki attempt to make multifaceted proposals about the state of society, which will become the key to the future, while using perspectives far removed from the urban world. The important point is that they are the subjects of the film. This is one of the reasons why the film, with its fictional and documentary qualities, crosses film genres and blurs the line between fiction and reality. It is also a device that sprouts an awareness of the problems in the audience's mind by blurring the issues of ongoing problems in society, which is a very impressive feat.

Takeo Matsuzaki (film critic)

Tanabe Benkei Film Festival Selection 2024

The Tanabe-Benkei Film Festival Selection" is a special screening of award-winning films from the Tanabe-Benkei Film Festival held annually in Tanabe City, Wakayama Prefecture, at Theatre Shinjuku and Theatre Umeda. Last year, a record number of 188 films were submitted, out of which 4 films including "Romantic Sense of Money" were selected and will be screened in the "Tanabe-Benkei Film Festival Selection 2024" starting August 23 for 3 weeks at Theatre Shinjuku as part of the late show.

Director's Comment]

The root of all social problems is the state of money. The reality is that money is contributing to social inequality, so we decided to make this film on the theme of "money," which we have been thinking about for 10 years. We would like to think together with the audience about how we should live in this era, when there are various economic spheres and it is okay to have a different system of money.

■Director's Profile

Mayu Ryokucha

Ryuzo Saeki

Two filmmakers living in Kansai. They have directed their own films individually, but this is their first film as co-directors. Saeki's previous works include the feature film "Asobi no lens" (2020), and Ryuzo's short film "wind chime" (2017). Romantic Financial Sense" won the Runner-up Grand Prix at the Tokyo Documentary Film Festival 2023 Feature Film Competition and the Filmmation Award at the 17th Tanabe-Benkei Film Festival.

Romantic Sense of Money" Film Information

Story.

Film directors Ryuzo and Mayu are a duo of poor directors who work hard but always have no money. The reason is that they keep making independent films that do not sell well. One day, when they have run out of money, they begin to think about "money" that has been tormenting them. They enter a romantic economic zone called "local currency" and decide to visit the people who live there. It is the beginning of a grand journey to remember something important that we, who use "legal tender", have somehow forgotten...

[Staff

Director/Screenplay/Editor : Mayu Midoricha, Ryuzo Saeki

Cinematography: Arata Kato, Toru Kurihara, Sorara Nishioka, Youshun Takagi

Cooperation: Yuru Yuru Eco-Village of Waste Materials, eumo, a non-profit corporation

Performers

Mayu Midoricha, Ryuzo Saeki

Daiichiro Yuyama, Hiryu Sobashima, Kazuaki Egashira, Kazuhiro Arai, Kozo Takei

Running time: 115 min.

(c)Machi no Record

■Links

*Official SNS of the work, SNS of the director, official HP, etc.

Official HP ： https://filmromakin.com/

Official X ： https://twitter.com/filmromakin

Official Instagram ： https://www.instagram.com/romantic_kinsenkankaku/

Official NOTE ： https://note.com/ryokumayu/m/m53a1a02e484e

Official TikTok ： https://www.tiktok.com/@romantic_kinsenkankaku