Gonella Productions

LANGUAGE: Japanese | SUBTITLES: English

Genre: Romantic Drama
Running Time: 11 minutes, 51 seconds
Year of production: 2016

SYNOPSIS

"Teaching the Nightingale" is based on a story from In the Empire of Dreams by Dianne Highbridge. Teruko, a Japanese woman in her mid-thirties, longs to share a dilemma while having coffee with a friend in Tokyo. Over the past weekend during a hiking trip, she reached a turning point in an important relationship and struggles to move on.

PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION

Production Company: 100 Meter Films
Film exports/World sales: Gonella Productions

CAST

Tomoko Hayakawa
Takeshi Uehara
Luke Anthony Bridgford
Hiroshi Sogabe

MAIN CREDITS

Director: Kyle McCloskey
Screenwriter: Kyle McCloskey
Producer: John Williams
Director of Photography: Ivan Kovac
Sound: Aiko Deguchi
Editing: Kyle McCloskey
Sound Editing: Masami Uchida

TECHNICAL DETAILS

Genre: Romantic Drama
Sub-genre: LGBTQ
Language: Japanese
Country of origin: Japan
Year of production: 2016
Total running time: 11 minutes, 51 seconds
Shooting format: Digital (R3D)
Color type: 709 color space
Aspect ratio: 2:1 (in 16:9 frame)
Sound format: Stereo