Website and Trailer for Hiroshi Ishikawa's Su-Ki-Da

I'm still struggling to catch up on the back log of work awaiting me on my return from Philadelphia but it's so hard to get to the old stuff when I keep getting new stuff like this ...

I received an email from a reader named Niels today, directing me to the website for Hiroshi Ishikawa's Su-Ki-Da. Niels was rather enthusiastic about Ishikawa's previous film - Tokyo.Sora - so I headed right on over and, judging by the trailer, this could very well be a quiet little gem of a film. It's certainly beautifully photographed as a quick spin through the images on the site will bear out.

The film is a romantic drama that shares stars with Toshiaki Toyoda's Hanging Garden (Eita, Hiromi Nagasaku), Katsuhito Ishii's Naisu No Mori (Ryo Kase), Shinji Aoyama's Eli Eli Lema Sabachthani (Aoi Miyazaki), Takeshi Kitano's Dolls (Hidetoshi Nishijima), Ryuichi Hiroki's Vibrator (Nao Omori) and Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Bright uture (Sayuri Oyamada) so while I know almost nothing about it from a story perspective I do know that the director knows his way around a camera and has great taste when it comes to casting.

Su-Ki-Da Website (Hit the Yokoku link for a streaming trailer)