Dynamite Wolf
- Sunday, May 28, 12:45 Naxoshalle Kino
- おっさんのケーフェイ
Ossan no kefei - Japan 2017, Blu-ray, 71 min, Japanese with English subtitles, released to age 12 or older
- Director & world sales: Kohei TANIGUCHI
- Script: Natsu HASHIMOTO
- Production: Hanazono Cinema
- Animation: Jeremy YAMAMURA
- Camera: Sokchu KIM
- Cast: Yota KAWASE, Yusuke MATSUDA, Haruto KOBAYASHI, Susumu NODA, Shuriya JINBO
- International premiere in the presence of the director, of the cinematographer Sokchu KIM and the CO2 employee Haruka KANAIZUKA
- Competition Nippon Visions Jury Award and Nippon Visions Audience Award
Having no talents or dreams for his future, elementary school boy Hiroto is in a deep crisis. But one day he sees a wrestling match with popular masked fighter Dynamite Wolf and becomes enthusiastic. An energetic coming-of-age dramedy, Kohei TANIGUCHI’s sophomore feature was filmed with support from the Dotonbori Pro Wrestling League, taking the film beyond the realm of a typical low-budget movie.
Director’s Bio
Kohei TANIGUCHI was born in Kyoto in 1988 and studied Video Art at Ritsumeikan University. Shooting his first short films during his studies, he worked as an assistant director in the field of V-Cinema after his graduation. The production of DYNAMITE WOLF was supported by a grant from the Cineastes Organization Osaka (CO2).