Kamataki

Kamataki (2005)

Twenty-three-year-old Ken has difficulty coping with the death of his father. His mother send him to his uncle Takuma in Japan.

Date of release
2005-10-01
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (4)
Runtime
1h 50m
Genres
Drama
Director
Claude Gagnon

Casting

Interesting facts

Kamataki is a Canadian-Japanese co-produced drama film, directed by Claude Gagnon and released in 2005.

Production

According to Gagnon, the film was originally inspired by the fact that his own daughter had at least six of her school friends commit suicide while she was a teenager. The original draft of the screenplay, written in the 1990s, did not incorporate the Japanese aspect, with the uncle instead being a painter to be played by Anthony Quinn; however, as Quinn was elderly and in poor health at that time, Gagnon had difficulty securing production fundin…

Smiley, an active athlete, was cast in the lead role despite being more physically fit than Gagnon intended his character to be, and spent several months not exercising and changing his diet to lose muscle mass in preparation for the role. He is also not of Asian descent, but was cast due to an "exotic" and "chameleon-like" appearance that can resemble partial Asian heritage.

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