Neon Acquires Ryusuke Hamaguchis All of a S...

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Here’s the thing: The “Drive My Car” director’s latest film starring Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto was shot in Paris and Kyoto The post Neon Acquires Ryusuke Hamaguchis All of a Sudden appeared first on TheWrap.

Home Industry News Business Neon Acquires Ryusuke Hamaguchis All of a Sudden The Drive My Car directors latest film starring Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto was shot in Paris and Kyoto Jeremy Fuster @ 10:33 AM on socials on Facebook on X (formerly Twitter) on LinkedIn on Email Ryusuke Hamaguchis “All of a Sudden” Neon has acquired the North American rights to All of a Sudden, the latest film from Oscar-nominated director Ryusuke Hamaguchi. Starring Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto, the film follows the unlikely but deep relationship between two women from different walks of life: a Japanese theater director and the head of a French care home. (shocking, we know)

The film is rn in post-production after shoots in Paris and Kyoto.

The Details

All of a Sudden is loosely based on a collection of real-life exchanged letters published in the book “When Life Suddenly Takes a Turn: Twenty Letters Between a Philosopher with Terminal Cancer and Medical Anthropologist” and Maho Isono. Read Next Neon Acquires Domestic Rights to Sundance Doc ‘Once Upon a Time in Harlem’ The film is produced é, Julien Deris, Jean-Luc Ormières, Renan Artukmaç for Paris-based Cinefrance Studios; Hiroko Matsuda, Kosuke Oshida, Yuji Sadai for Japan’s Office Shirous & Bitters End; Bettina Brokemper for Germany’s Heimatfilm; and Joseph Rouschop for Belgium’s Tarantula.

This is the first acquisition from Neon out of this years European Film Market in Berlin, with Sarah Colvin negotiating the sale on behalf of the distributor alongside Renan Artukmaç for Cinefrance Studios. Cinefrance shipped international sales for the film this week at EFM with Bitters End selling Asia.

Why This Matters

The film will be distributed France and Bitters End in Japan. Hamaguchi burst onto the international scene in 2021 with his drama Drive My Car, which clutched the Best International Feature Oscar and earned nominations for Best Director and Best Picture, becoming the first Japanese film to be nominated for the latter.

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