For Love's SAKE

For Love's SAKE

2DCS/ES12
Director:SEGI Naoki
Cast:KAWAEI Rina, ONOZUKA Hayato, MIYAJI Mao
Premiere:21. February 2022
Length:117 minutes
Genre:Romantic

Director: SEGI Naoki  •  Cast: KAWAEI Rina, ONOZUKA Hayato, MIYAJI Mao

Even today, young Japanese are fascinated by the western world and its culture more than their own traditions. Shiori, a student of agricultural university in Tokyo, shares similar values in this romantic Japanese comedy where streams of sake will flow. She wants to be a sommelier and study wine craft in France. On her teacher’s whim, though, she is sent to a popular traditional sake brewery, Saijo in Hiroshima for practice. Despite a series of misunderstandings, she is determined to obtain the course credit and make her French dream reality. She never loved sake, but when the sake makers teach her about the correct temperature and serving, she discovers a whole new world. Suddenly, she finds herself in an environment where sake is central to everything. The son of the sake brewery’s owner does not intend to carry on the family tradition but circumstances bring him back to his mother’s idea of making a special sake variety using the traditional method. Both young people are facing a difficult task with an uncertain result. The director is Segi Naoki; you may have seen his Ramen Samurai.

2018 Hawaii International Film Festival

© 2018 „For Love's SAKE“ Film Partners

Length: 117 min

Year: 2018
Local premiere date: 21. February 2022
World premiere date: 20. October 2018

Country of origin:

  • Japan

Director: SEGI Naoki  •  Cast: KAWAEI Rina, ONOZUKA Hayato, MIYAJI Mao

Even today, young Japanese are fascinated by the western world and its culture more than their own traditions. Shiori, a student of agricultural university in Tokyo, shares similar values in this romantic Japanese comedy where streams of sake will flow. She wants to be a sommelier and study wine craft in France. On her teacher’s whim, though, she is sent to a popular traditional sake brewery, Saijo in Hiroshima for practice. Despite a series of misunderstandings, she is determined to obtain the course credit and make her French dream reality. She never loved sake, but when the sake makers teach her about the correct temperature and serving, she discovers a whole new world. Suddenly, she finds herself in an environment where sake is central to everything. The son of the sake brewery’s owner does not intend to carry on the family tradition but circumstances bring him back to his mother’s idea of making a special sake variety using the traditional method. Both young people are facing a difficult task with an uncertain result. The director is Segi Naoki; you may have seen his Ramen Samurai.

2018 Hawaii International Film Festival

© 2018 „For Love's SAKE“ Film Partners

Year: 2018
Local premiere date: 21. February 2022
World premiere date: 20. October 2018

Country of origin:

  • Japan