Ten Years Japan (2018)

Interesting facts

Ten Years Japan (Jû-nen) is a 2018 Japanese drama anthology film. Featuring five short stories by directors Chie Hayakawa, Yusuke Kinoshita, Megumi Tsuno, Akiyo Fujimura, and Kei Ishikawa, the film imagines the country's near future through themes of aging, conformity, technology, and militarization.

Production

In 2015, Japanese producer Miyuki Takamatsu watched the original Hong Kong Ten Years (2015) at the Far East Film Festival, decided to contact the Hong Kong production team to make a Japanese version. At the same time, she hoped to use this opportunity to promote emerging directors and cultivate new blood outside of the "Japanese Four Ks" — Hirokazu Kore-eda, Naomi Kawase, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, and Takeshi Kitano.

The production team invited several up-and-coming Japanese directors, asking them to write an original story set 10 years in the future, with each story limited to 20 minutes. Some of the selected individuals were arranged to have interviews with Kore-eda, and in the end, five were chosen to participate in the film's production.

The five directors created more than 30 scripts for the film, from which Kore-eda selected five stories to be filmed. During production, Kore-eda also gave many suggestions regarding the scripts and editing work of the five directors — such as proposing, "Could this shot be removed?" — but always respected the directors’ final decisions.

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