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“Remembering Every Night” is Yui Kiyohara‘s second feature-length film. The movie was presented in the 2023 “Berlin International Film Festival” Forum section and is currently showing at the Japanese Film Festival “Nippon Connection” in Frankfurt. The very young director had already presented her debut feature film “Our House” at the 2018 Berlinale, a work that also earned her the Grand Prize at the “Pia Film Festival” and the Best Director award at the 2018 “Asian New Talent Awards” in Shanghai.

Remembering Every Night plays at Ica London

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From the very first sequences – shot with a fixed camera – of empty streets, trees, the chirping of birds, and shots of anonymous Japanese buildings, the quite lonesome tone of the work is established. The protagonists are three women: one is searching for a job (Kumi Hyodo), another is a gas meter inspector (Minami Oba), and the third (Ai Mikami) is...

If, like me, you have a morbid fascination with the strangest conspiracies of the far right, chances are you’ve encountered protests around the concept of the “15-minute city.” In theory, this urban-planning concept is designed to make life easier for residents: all important amenities, from schools to hospitals, located just a short walk or drive from people’s homes, cutting down carbon emissions in the process. Who could take against that? Well, a surprising number of people who sincerely believe this is the next step towards big government locking the global population within their homes and taking away all their personal freedoms, a line of thinking that has made it the latest pet peeve of the QAnon faithful.

Remembering Every Night, the sophomore directorial effort of Yui Kiyohara, isn’t about such a development, but while observing its gently idiosyncratic depiction of life in Tama New Town––a residential...

“Remembering Every Night” is Yui Kiyohara's second feature-length film. The movie was presented in the 2023 “Berlin International Film Festival” Forum section and is currently showing at the Japanese Film Festival “Nippon Connection” in Frankfurt. The very young director had already presented her debut feature film “Our House” at the 2018 Berlinale, a work that also earned her the Grand Prize at the “Pia Film Festival” and the Best Director award at the 2018 “Asian New Talent Awards” in Shanghai.

Remembering Every Night screened at Nippon Connection

From the very first sequences – shot with a fixed camera – of empty streets, trees, the chirping of birds, and shots of anonymous Japanese buildings, the quite lonesome tone of the work is established. The protagonists are three women: one is searching for a job (Kumi Hyodo), another is a gas meter inspector (Minami Oba), and the third (Ai Mikami) is dealing with university studies and the processing of recent grief.