Paco and the Magical Book | |
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Kanji | パコと魔法の絵本 |
Revised Hepburn | Pako to Mahō no Ehon |
Directed by | Tetsuya Nakashima |
Screenplay by | Nobuhiro Monma Tetsuya Nakashima |
Story by | Hirohito Goto |
Produced by | Yutaka Suzuki |
Starring |
Kōji Yakusho Ayaka Wilson Satoshi Tsumabuki |
Cinematography | Shoichi Ato Atsushi Ozawa |
Edited by | Yoshiyuki Koike |
Music by | Gabriele Roberto |
Production companies | |
Distributed by | Toho |
Release date |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Box office | $22,679,633 [1] |
Paco and the Magical (Picture) Book (パコと魔法の絵本, Pako to Mahō no Ehon) is a 2008 Japanese film written and directed by Tetsuya Nakashima, based on a play by Hirohito Gotō.
It was shown at the Munich Asian Filmfest in 2008 [2] and has been nominated for three awards for the 2009 Asian Film Awards. [3] Actors Kōji Yakusho and Ayaka Wilson and director Tetsuya Nakashima have been nominated for the 2008 Japanese Academy Award. [4]
The movie is set in a hospital where "strange" people are sent.
One of the older, gruffer patients, is Onuki, a business owner who is sent to the hospital after a heart attack, thinks little of the other hospital patients, and hopes to die without being remembered by such "worthless" people. Another patient, a young girl named Paco, is in the hospital due to a memory disorder- she can only remember the events of one day at a time. Each day she reads a pop-up children's book, and often asks Onuki to read to her. Each day it is a new story for her.
Eventually, the two of them develop a friendship, and Onuki decides to enlist the help of the other people in the hospital to perform a play of the book, hoping it will help Paco.
Paco and the Magical Book | |
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Kanji | パコと魔法の絵本 |
Revised Hepburn | Pako to Mahō no Ehon |
Directed by | Tetsuya Nakashima |
Screenplay by | Nobuhiro Monma Tetsuya Nakashima |
Story by | Hirohito Goto |
Produced by | Yutaka Suzuki |
Starring |
Kōji Yakusho Ayaka Wilson Satoshi Tsumabuki |
Cinematography | Shoichi Ato Atsushi Ozawa |
Edited by | Yoshiyuki Koike |
Music by | Gabriele Roberto |
Production companies | |
Distributed by | Toho |
Release date |
|
Running time | 105 minutes |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Box office | $22,679,633 [1] |
Paco and the Magical (Picture) Book (パコと魔法の絵本, Pako to Mahō no Ehon) is a 2008 Japanese film written and directed by Tetsuya Nakashima, based on a play by Hirohito Gotō.
It was shown at the Munich Asian Filmfest in 2008 [2] and has been nominated for three awards for the 2009 Asian Film Awards. [3] Actors Kōji Yakusho and Ayaka Wilson and director Tetsuya Nakashima have been nominated for the 2008 Japanese Academy Award. [4]
The movie is set in a hospital where "strange" people are sent.
One of the older, gruffer patients, is Onuki, a business owner who is sent to the hospital after a heart attack, thinks little of the other hospital patients, and hopes to die without being remembered by such "worthless" people. Another patient, a young girl named Paco, is in the hospital due to a memory disorder- she can only remember the events of one day at a time. Each day she reads a pop-up children's book, and often asks Onuki to read to her. Each day it is a new story for her.
Eventually, the two of them develop a friendship, and Onuki decides to enlist the help of the other people in the hospital to perform a play of the book, hoping it will help Paco.