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| Akashi | |
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| Directed by | Mayumi Yoshida |
| Written by | Mayumi Yoshida |
| Produced by | Nach Dudsdeemaytha Tyler Hagan Mayumi Yoshida |
| Starring | Mayumi Yoshida Hana Kino Ryo Tajima Kunio Murai |
| Cinematography | Jaryl Lim |
| Edited by | Nach Dudsdeemaytha |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Languages | Japanese English |
Akashi is a Canadian drama film, directed by Mayumi Yoshida and released in 2025. [1] The film stars Yoshida as Kana, a Japanese Canadian artist based in Vancouver who returns home to Tokyo for the first time in ten years to attend the funeral of her grandmother (Hana Kino); during the trip, she reconnects with her old boyfriend Hiro (Ryo Tajima), and investigates a family secret about her grandfather (Kunio Murai) that her grandmother had revealed before her death. [2]
The cast also includes Chieko Matsubara, Annie the Clumsy, Kimura Bun, Hiro Kanagawa, Yûko Kii, Sayaka Kunisada, Rin Kusunose, Kenji Masaki, Jess McLeod, Yuriko Ohnuma, Tyson Ohya, Shun Sugata and Shôhei Yamazaki in supporting roles.
Yoshida's full-length directorial debut, the film is 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]
The film premiered at the 2025 Vancouver International Film Festival, [5] where it won the Audience Award for the Northern Lights program. [6]
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