바다가 없는 마을 (2020)

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Town Without Sea is a 2020 Japanese coming-of-age drama film directed by Elaiza Ikeda, starring Yuki Kura, Roi Ishiuchi and Nari Saito. Ikeda's directorial debut, it follows two childhood friends in their last year of high school as they deliberate their future and what happiness means for them. Set in Tagawa, Fukuoka, it is the second entry in the Our Recipe Encyclopedia series of locally-produced films, a project of eiga24ku.

Production

Actress and model Elaiza Ikeda announced in March 2019 that she would be making her directorial debut with Town Without Sea, a coming-of-age drama produced by the film production company eiga24ku as the second entry in its Our Recipe Encyclopedia series centring around the themes of "region," "food," and "high school students".

The screenplay was written by Yuko Shimoda, who had previously worked on several television dramas in which Ikeda appeared, over the course of several months. This was Shimoda's first screenplay for a feature film. Shimoda, as well as cinematographer Takahiro Imai and sound engineer Shinnosuke Komoda, the latter of whom had previously worked with her and was also a Fukuoka native, as well as the composer and the lighting technician.

The character Taiga was based on a middle school student Ikeda had interviewed who wanted to be a civil servant simply because it would "be better to have a stable job" and "it would make his mother happy." Sho was instead written to "complement" Taiga as a "microcosm of modern society, a type of kid that is common today." A rough draft was then written based on the concept of a kid who had Taiga as a best friend, and how they could "inspire" eac…

It was announced in August that Yuki Kura had been cast as Sho, while Roi Ishiuchi and Nari Saito had been cast as Taiga and Miyako, respectively. This was Kura's first leading role and Ishiuchi's first acting role. Ken'ichi Abe and Kiki Sugino were cast as Sho's parents, while Lily Franky and Hideko Hara were cast as his grandparents. Musician Masaji Otsuka was cast as the owner of the local pet shop.

Principal photography began in Tagawa in mid-August, shortly after shooting had wrapped for the J-drama series Followers, in which Ikeda had starred. While on that set, she had observed Mika Ninagawa's direction and applied what she had learnt through that experience to directing Town Without Sea. To prepare for the role, Kura and Roi attended a taiko drumming residential training camp in Tagawa in the two weeks before filming began.

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