It has recently been revealed that the film "Yukite Kaheranu" (directed by Negishi Kichitaro, scheduled for release on February 21, 2025), starring actress Hirose Suzu, will be officially selected for the 54th International Film Festival Rotterdam, which will be held in the Netherlands from January 30 to February 9, 2025 (local time).
In addition, the overseas version visuals and nine scene cuts of the movie have also been released. The overseas version visuals are a close-up of the beautiful profile of the main character, Yasuko Hasegawa, played by Hirose, and show her impressive expression, which shows a mixture of innocence and madness as she is loved by two artists, Chuuya Nakahara and Hideo Kobayashi, and is broken by their love.
The film "Yukite Kaeranu" is set in the Taisho era and depicts the passionate love and youth of three real men and women. Hasegawa Yasuko (Hirose), an actress who has yet to show her talent, meets Nakahara Chuya (Taisei Kido Daisei), a young man who will later be called a genius poet of the age. The two, who are somewhat competitive with each other, are attracted to each other and begin living together. After the two move to Tokyo, they are visited by Kobayashi Hideo (Masaki Okada), a friend of Chuya's who later became one of Japan's leading literary critics. This chance encounter changes the destinies of the three people...
The film will be entered in the "Big Screen Competition" category, an innovative category in which the award winners are selected by a jury made up of ordinary movie fans, and the winning film is expected to be released in the Netherlands and broadcast on television.
Director Negishi commented, "I am extremely honored that 'Yukite Kaheranu' has been selected for the International Film Festival Rotterdam, which continues to discover cutting-edge films. I am looking forward to seeing how Dutch audiences will accept this story of Japanese youth, specifically the Taisho period. I hope that while they enjoy the beauty of Japanese architecture with its tiled roofs and the mogamobo fashion of the time, they will also feel a deep empathy that transcends countries and time for the intense life of a young woman torn between two young men (played to perfection by Hirose Suzu)."
