Akashi is a Canadian drama film. It was written, directed and starred Mayumi Yoshida, in her feature-length directorial debut, and produced by Yoshida, Nach Dudsdeemaytha and Tyler Hagan.[1]
Kana, a Japanese Canadian artist based in Vancouver returns home to Tokyo for the first time in ten years to attend the funeral of her grandmother; during the trip, she reconnects with her old boyfriend Hiro, and investigates a family secret about her grandfather that her grandmother had revealed before her death.[2]
Akashi was Yoshida's full-length directorial debut. The film was an expansion of her 2017 short film of the same title.[3] It entered production in December 2023 in Tokyo, with some later location shooting in Vancouver.[4]
Release
The film premiered at the 2025 Vancouver International Film Festival,[5] where it won the Audience Award for the Northern Lights program.[6] It screened in the Borsos Competition program at the 2025 Whistler Film Festival.[7] It swept the awards at the Whistler Film Festival with Yoshida winning best actor, best B.C. director and the Haebler Award for best feature, alongside Hagan and Dudsdeemaytha.[8] Additionally, Jaryl Lim won for best cinematography.
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