[Film]
EARTHQUAKE BIRD BFI LONDON FILM FESTIVAL 2019
This film is set in Japan in 1989, just before the bubble economy was on the verge of collapse. The director, Wash is a British, studying in Japan at that time, so his unique perspective as a stranger was established. On the other hand, I, working in Tokyo then, wanted to put the sceneries that I saw with incongruity at that time and the bittersweet memories with my friends into the production design. And I wanted to create a tapestry woven with daily and extraordinary for this film, remembering the tingling pain from those days, that the heroine might have felt and I had certainly felt—Yohei Taneda
Lucy (Alicia Vicander) knows Japanese culture very well and speaks Japanese fluently. One morning she is taken to the police station as a murder suspect. A friend, Lily (Riley Kio), was missing and seems to be found as a dead body. There was a mysterious Japanese photographer Teiji (Naoki Kobayashi) between these two women.
EARTHQUAKE BIRD depicts delicately the stray of the spirit of a foreign woman in Japan in 1989 at the end of the bubble economy through a tumultuous love triangle, murder, and dark stories. Based on a mystery novel with the title The Earthquake Bird by Suzanna Jones, an English writer who lived in Japan and won the John Creasey -New Blood, the one of awards of the CWA, a prestigious award in the mystery novel.
The director is Wash Westmoreland of Still Alice, and the total producer is Ridley Scott. Scheduled to be distributed worldwide on Netflix from November the15th after screening at the theatres in the USA.
Director Scripter: Wash Westmoreland
Producer: Ridley Scott, Kevin J Walsh, Michael Pruss, Ann Ruark, Georgina Pope
Cast: Alicia Vikander, Riley Keough, Naoki Kobayashi
USA 2019 108min
Netflix original film
World Premiere October10th, 2019 (and 11th)
BFI LONDON FILM FESTIVAL 2019
EARTHQUAKE BIRD LONDON FILM FESTIVAL
Asian Premiere October 29th, 2019
TOKYO INTERNATION FILM FESTIVAL 2019
EARTHQUAKE BIRD TOKYO FILM FESTIVAL
It is scheduled to be released on November 1, 2019, before digital streaming on November 15, 2019, by Netflix.
EARTHQUAKE BIRD NETFLIX Official Site
