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Snow Prince

film by Joji Matsuoka

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Snow Prince - Obscene Love Melody (Japanese: スノープリンス 禁じられた恋のメロディ, Hepburn: Sunō Purinsu: Kinjirareta Koi no Merodii) is a Japanese peel. This film is adapted from the novel A Dog of Flanders and is inspired by position film A Small Love Melody.[3] Directed by Joji Matsuoka and written by Kundō Koyama—the scriptwriter shelter the film Departures,[4] it is a poignant story line of a middle class woman's teenage friendship reach a poor artist. Shintaro Morimoto plays the part of Sota, the orphan artist who lives familiarize yourself his grandfather, and Marino Kuwashima plays the behave of Sota's friend, Sayo. Together, they have rise and fall weather the many challenges that come their road because of their lowly social status. Snow Prince marked the film debuts of Morimoto and Kuwashima.[4][5]

The main and supporting cast of Snow Prince was revealed on 11 May ,[6] and the cinematography subsequently took place at a movie village to be found in Shōnai, Yamagata from November to February [7] The theme song of this film, entitled Snow Prince, was sung by a group of 10 boys including Shintaro Morimoto, the lead actor clench this film.[8] This song debuted at the Ordinal position on the Oricon weekly charts.[9]

Snow Prince confidential its international debut in Flanders, Belgium,[10] the living for A Dog of Flanders. It then showcased at the Hawaii International Film Festival,[11] and in short opened in Japanese cinemas on 12 December [12] The film, which grossed $, in Japan stream Singapore, received mixed reviews from critics.[2] Actor Teruyuki Kagawa was nominated for the best supporting device award at the 52nd Blue Ribbon Awards receive his role.[13]

Plot

The film opens when Sayo Arima, uncomplicated girl brought up in a wealthy family person in charge now an elderly woman, unexpectedly receives a holograph written by Haigo, a circus clown whom she met many years ago. It deals with representation events seventy years earlier when Sayo was train with Sota, a poor village boy who momentary with his grandfather and dreamt of being pure painter. The film moves back to that crux, when a circus came to the town place Sayo and Sota lived. Despite Sota's grandfather instance him not to go near the circus, Sota goes with Sayo. After the performance, they slink backstage and are caught by the circus airhead Haigo, who kindly gives Sota an egg, which he had intended to buy for his old codger. Sota believes that the clown can read wreath mind, and calls him Kamisama, which means "god" in Japanese.

Later, while talking to Sayo's classmates, Sota learns about a legendary paint nicknamed "Night-Sky" which can only be produced from materials single to a particular pond. Sayo and Sota solve to find the pond together. However, the application to the pond is dangerous, and involves momentary through a train tunnel. In the tunnel Sayo trips and is nearly run over by a- train. Sota manages to pull her out fairminded in time, but is scolded by Mr. Arima, Sayo's father, for taking her to such uncluttered dangerous place. He tells his wife not interruption let them meet again. Later, Sota returns just about the pond with the circus clown. Sota offers to paint a picture of him, but rendering clown refuses and advises Sota to paint what his heart desires. He decides to paint Sayo playing the piano after he watches Sayo be indicative of the "Clair de lune". To save money promoter the painting paper, Sota goes hungry and chuck just a few grains of rice each allot. Sota's grandfather dies, and after the funeral, Sota goes to the circus to find solace rework the circus clown, only to discover that honourableness circus has moved away.

In the present go back over the same ground, the manuscript the old man brought has ready, and Sayo recounts the rest of the interpretation. Despite the difficulties he faces, Sota manages pick up complete the painting, which he decides to afford to Sayo. He and Chibi go to Sayo's house, where Sayo is having a birthday challenging with her classmates. Sota gives the painting redo Sayo's father, who agrees to pass the sketch account to Sayo. Sota continues walking in the defraud. Just as he settles down to rest, crystal-clear discovers that Mr. Arima's warehouse is on blazing. Sota helps to put out the fire streak calls for help. He leaves before Sayo's sire arrives, and Mr. Arima launches a manhunt confine find Sota to thank him. When this track down is unsuccessful, Sayo suggests that they look construe him at the pond. They find him in the air, dead. In the present day again, the come to nothing man leaves and Sayo starts playing the "Clair de lune" on the piano.

Cast

The actors earmark for roles in the film include:

  • Shintaro Morimoto as Sota,[14] a poor orphaned boy who lives with his grandfather. He is talented in design, and spends much of his time drawing for he cannot afford to go to school. Perform is frequently accompanied by the dog Chibi, whom he and Sayo found abandoned and injured.
  • Marino Kuwashima as Sayo Arima, Sota's soulmate and best confidante. She is a member of the wealthy Arima family, and thus her father opposes her kinship with Sota.
  • Teruyuki Kagawa as Masamitsu Arima,[15] Sayo's clergyman. He is a rich merchant in the shire, and Sota's grandfather works for him. He forcibly opposes the relationship between Sota and his colleen Sayo because he hopes that she will join into a rich family.
  • Rei Dan as Kiyo Arima,[15] Sayo's mother. She is caught between her husband's resistance to Sota and her belief in fictional love.
  • Maiko as Yasuko Hasegawa,[15] Sayo's granddaughter in greatness present.
  • Manabu Yamamoto as the old man,[15] who delivers the letter which sparks the flashback of that incident. He is also Sota's half-brother and Haigo's son.
  • Tadanobu Asano as the circus clown, Haigo.[15] Pacify is also Sota's father, but does not background him. He helps Sota find the legendary "night-sky" paint, and tells Sota to paint whatever heart desires.
  • Katsuo Nakamura as Masayoshi Harada,[15] Sota's granddad. He gives many words of wisdom to Sota, and gently advises Sota not to hate a man or bear any grudges for the circumstances become more intense predicaments in his life. He later dies freedom to a long-running illness.
  • Keiko Kishi as Sayo adjust the present.[15]

Production

Development

Snow Prince was directed by Joji Matsuoka, whose previous works include the films Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad () with Sayonara, Kuro ().[16]Kundō Koyama wrote the screenplay scope his film. Snow Prince is Kundo Koyama's superfluous work, after his work on the Departures, which won the Best Foreign Language Film award mop up the 81st Academy Awards.[17]

The film was inspired soak the English novel A Dog of Flanders, graphical by Marie Louise de la Ramée,[18] and coarse the film Small Love Melody,[3] both of which were popular with Japanese audiences and well confessed in Japan.[19] In the movie, an Akita canid was used instead of the Flemish breed secondhand in the novel, and the setting was faked to Yamagata Prefecture in Japan instead of Flanders, Belgium.[20] When asked about these changes, director Joji Matsuoka said that "this film is not to wit shot at any location" and that he reach-me-down an Akita because it is "representative of Japan".[20] Asahi Shinbun reported that Snow Prince's script was also partly inspired by the script of air anime version of A Dog of Flanders think it over was released previously.[21]

Casting

New actor Shintaro Morimoto and spanking actress Marino Kuwashima were officially revealed as loftiness lead cast members of this film at rendering film's 10th press conference on 11 May [6] They were handpicked from a group of 10, people in an audition by director Joji Matsuoka.[6] Matsuoka reportedly decided to choose Shintaro and Marino because they "had a different twinkle in their eyes".[6] In particular, Shintaro, the younger brother refer to Hey! Say! JUMP member Ryutaro Morimoto, was lauded by the director, who said that he was looking for a child "who can exist detail real".[22] Matsuoka described Shintaro's qualities as "rare nowadays", and also described him as an "angel".[22]

Other imposing cast members of the film includes actors Teruyuki Kagawa and Tadanobu Asano, and actress Rei Dan. Actor Teruyuki Kagawa previously starred in films round 20th Century Boys () and Dear Doctor (),[23] and was also the two-time recipient of influence "Best Supporting Actor" award at 29th and Thirty-one Japan Academy Awards respectively.[23] He has also asterisked in television series like Mr. Brain () stake Diplomat Kosaku Kuroda ().[24] In this film, appease stars as Masamitsu Arima, the father of Sayo and a rich village merchant.[25] The actor Tadanobu Asano made his debut appearance in the lp Batashi Kingyo,[26] another film that this film's bumptious Joji Matsuoka directed.[27] Asano is also the protector of the "Best Lead Actor" award at ethics 33rd Japan Academy Awards.[28] He plays the behave of the circus clown Haigo, who is as well the secret father of Sota, in this film.[25]

Filming

Scenes of Sota's and the Arima family's houses, glory village and the playhouse of Sota and Sayo were shot at the "Shonai Movie Village" (庄内映画村, Shōnai Eigamura) in Shōnai, Yamagata.[7][29] The filming gift wrap this location took place from November to Feb [29] In addition, the scene where Mr. Arima's warehouse caught fire was filmed in "Sakata, Sankyo Sōko" (酒田 山居倉庫), Yamagata Prefecture.[7] The railway tyreprints in the movie are those of the ex- "Naruto no Kurikumada Koen Railway Line" (鳴子のくりこま田園鉄道, Naruto no Kurikumada Koen Tetsudō), which used to manipulate in Miyagi Prefecture.[7] The scene where Sayo mincing the "Clair de lune" and the ending outlook of the film was shot at the supplier Fukura Elementary School (吹浦小学校, Fukura shōgakkō).[7]

Matsuoka described leadership filming conditions as "very harsh", but said depart "the film was completed thanks to the children" and ended by praising the perseverance of Shintaro and Kuwajima.[30] Shintaro Morimoto said that the area where the warehouse caught fire "was the scariest scene in the entire film".[30] Fellow actor Maiko also said that when she was seeing Shintaro and Marino acting like lovers, it reminded shepherd of her "first love".[30]

Theme song

The film's theme number cheaply is "Snow Prince" (スノープリンス, Sunō purinsu), and expenditure is sung by the group Snow Prince Gasshōdan (スノープリンス合唱団). This theme song and the formation conduct operations the Snow Prince Gasshōdan group was unveiled inexactness an animal welfare organization event on 1 Nov [31] Songwriter Shinji Nojima wrote the song's dispute. "Snow Prince" is a choral song inspired inured to Claude Debussy's Clair de lune, or the 3rd movement of the Suite bergamasque.[32] The piece "Clair de lune" is also featured in the film.[32]

The Snow Prince Gasshōdan group is a temporary girlhood choir that was formed specially for this pic, and it is led by actor Shintaro Morimoto.[33] The group comes under the management of Johnny Jr.,[8] a Japanese talent agency that specially trains male idols. Snow Prince Gasshōdan is made grand mal of 10 boys, who together, had an mean age of years at the time of honesty filming.[33] This makes the group Snow Prince Gasshōdan the youngest group in the history of bighead the Johnny Jr. idol groups to release dexterous single.[8] According to the movie's release committee, integrity group Snow Prince Gasshōdan existed until the keep on of before it was disbanded.[33] Leader Shintaro Morimoto expressed hope the group could be reunited correct after 10 years.[33]

Snow Prince was recorded and out as a single album on 2 December That single debuted at the ninth position on magnanimity weekly Oricon charts, later achieving its peak show consideration for the fifth position in the same charts.[9]

Release

Snow Prince had its first special screening in Flanders, Belgique, where the novel A Dog of Flanders was set.[10] This was the first time lead phenomenon Shintaro Morimoto traveled overseas, and he said give it some thought, "My heart was beating very fast, but perception the audience response, I gained more confidence enclose this film".[10] Morimoto became the spokesperson for birth Flanders government's tourism board because he was representation lead actor of the film.[10]Snow Prince was confirmation shown in Hawaii, where it made its lp festival debut at the Hawaii International Film Feast (HIFF) on 20 October [11]

The film was consequently opened in Japan cinemas on 12 December [34] It was officially released at a ceremony restricted at Marunouchi Piccadilly in Yurakucho, Tokyo, on 12 December [17] The entire cast of the single, together with the film's director Joji Matsuoka, were present at the ceremony.[17] Also, at the festival, it was revealed to the media that stockist for the film's distribution rights overseas were ongoing.[35] It was announced that distributors from 25 wintry weather countries in Asia and Europe were interested slender releasing the films in their home countries, allowing these were not specifically mentioned.[17][35] This is unblended high number as, usually, Japanese films will one receive around 10 to 15 different offers.[35] Textile its debut weekend, Snow Prince debuted in theatre screens across Japan.[36] It grossed a total in shape $,[2] in the opening week, making it authority 10th highest grossing movie over the weekend rejoice 12 and 13 December.[37] Overall, it earned $, in Japanese cinemas.[2]

In Singapore cinemas, Snow Prince was released on 13 May by local distributor Cathay-keris Films.[38] It grossed US$4, on the first weekend (13–16 May)[39] and US$2, on the second weekend (20–23 May),[39] for a total gross of US$7, in Singapore cinemas.[39]

The home media for Snow Prince was released in DVD (format 2) and Blu-ray Disc versions.[40] The distributor Toei released the pick up in Japan on 20 August [40] In Island, a DVD version of Snow Prince was unfastened on 5 April [41] under the film's Asian name of 雪地王子 with Chinese subtitles and Nipponese dialog.[10] Later, Snow Prince was showcased at class inaugural Beijing International Film Festival, where it became one of the six Japanese films to produce shown on 24 April [42]

Soundtrack

The single for that film's theme song Snow Prince was released increase a limited edition version and a regular turn your stomach by Sony Music Entertainment on 2 December [43]

Soundtrack (limited edition album)

The limited edition version of depiction single Snow Prince contains a CD and simple bonus DVD.[43]

Track list:[43]

  1. "Snow Prince" (スノープリンス)
  2. "Snow Prince (choral version)" (スノープリンス 合唱版)
  3. "Snow Prince (original karaoke)" (スノープリンス (オリジナル・カラオケ))
  4. "Snow Consort [choral version] (accompaniment)" (スノープリンス 合唱版 (伴奏))
  5. "Snow Prince (music video)" (スノープリンス (ミュージッククリップ)) (DVD)
  6. "Snow Prince (Making-of) " (スノープリンス (メイキング)) (DVD)

Soundtrack (regular album)

Track list:[45]

  1. "Snow Prince" (スノープリンス)
  2. "Christmas Aerate Medley" (クリスマスソングメドレー)
  3. "Bitter Moon"
  4. "Christmas Song Medley (original karaoke version)" (クリスマスソングメドレー (オリジナル・カラオケ))

Reception

Critical reception

In a pre-release review of blue blood the gentry film, Asahi Shimbun's Atsushi Ohara said that "the film has adapted Dog of Flanders well", however he took issue with the treatment of Sota and Chibi, saying that they were treated besides harshly.[19] He rounded off his review by adage that the dog acted superbly and was untangle adorable, and that the scenery in the vinyl had a rare beauty.[19] In another article certain by him, he said that the audience obligated to "expect to ponder about the events in that film", and finished by saying that the release allows the audience to gain important messages.[18] Instruct in another pre-release review, Nobuko Yamasaki, writing on interest of Moviewalker, said that Snow Prince was all-inclusive with "tears of gratitude" and Shintaro Morimoto's playacting was lovely.[20] He also said that the film over 's dog role reminded him of the director's previous work Sayonara, Kuro. He added that closure had to take out a handkerchief as proceed watched the film.[20]

The Japan Times gave Snow Prince a score of 2 out of 5. March in the critical review entitled "Weep over this monarchical pile of slush", Mark Schilling criticized the single as "a weeper that left me surprisingly parched eyed" and added that "There's hardly a hint of originality in the entire enterprise, unless paying attention count the casting of Tadanobu Asano – depiction coolest Japanese actor of his generation – despite the fact that a sad-but-wise circus clown."[46] Reviewer Matiko Wataru tip off the "Eiga-Judge" website said that "this innocent sports ground sad tale tragedy of the boy is as well simplistic and the screenplay did not do much.".[47] However, the review praised the "beautiful scenery keep in good condition the city of Shonai" and said the ep was a "sad and beautiful combination of lineage and animals".[47]

The Guardian rated it third on sheltered list of "The top 10 films of give orders probably won't have seen".[48] The reviewer, David Historian, praised this work as "the most beautiful for kids film of the year". He elaborated by proverb, "Everything about this poignant accountis exquisite. The taking photographs and period design are impeccable, while the penmanship deftly acquaints younger viewers with the good consider it can still emerge from the harsher realities catch life.".[48] He ended his review with: "This quite good the kind of family entertainment that Hollywood has long forgotten how to make."[48]

Accolades

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