Ryuichi SHIMADA 島田隆一
Nowhere To Go
ドコニモイケナイ
Nippon Visions ½
NOWHERE TO GO is the portrait of Hisato YOSHIMURA, a young musician on the streets of Tokyo's Shibuya ward. What could have moved this young woman to be a street performer, what are her dreams? After initial success, Hisato is diagnosed with schizophrenia and has to return to her family home. 8 years later, the film crew decides to meet her again.
ドコニモイケナイ
Doko ni mo ikenai
Japan 2011
86 minutes
Director
Ryuichi SHIMADA
Cinematography
Masahiro ASAZUMA, Daido YAMAUCHI, Ryuichi SHIMADA, Yuichiro KISAKA
Music
AMADORI, Hideomi MORI
Production
JyaJya Films
World sales
JyaJya Films
About Ryuichi SHIMADA
島田隆一
Ryuichi SHIMADA was born in Tokyo Prefecture in 1981. After graduating from the Japan Institute of the Moving Image, he worked as an assistant director and also made many industrial PR videos. For his first feature-length film NOWHERE TO GO, he received the New Directors Award of the Directors Guild of Japan. After that, he has worked for many film projects as producer and editor. UNDER THE CHERRY TREE (2015 / NC ’16), which he produced, won the Nippon Visions Audience Award in 2016 and other awards. He is currently a professor at the Japan Institute of the Moving Image.