H Story Explained

H Story
Director:	Nobuhiro Suwa
Producer:	Takenori Sentô
Starring:	Béatrice Dalle
Cinematography:	Caroline Champetier
Editing:	Nobuhiro Suwa
Distributor:	Tokyo Theatres
Runtime:	111 minutes
Country:	Japan
Language:	Japanese
Gross:	$55,000^[1]

H Story is a 2001 Japanese drama film by writer-director Nobuhiro Suwa. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.^[2] It is an autobiographical docufiction about an attempt to remake Alain Resnais' 1959 film Hiroshima Mon Amour.^[3]

Cast

• Béatrice Dalle as The actress
• Kou Machida as The writer
• Hiroaki Umano as The actor
• Nobuhiro Suwa as himself
• Caroline Champetier as herself
• Michiko Yoshitake as herself
• Motoko Suhama as herself

Notes and References

1. Web site: H Story (2001) - JPBox-Office.
2. Web site: Festival de Cannes: H Story . 19 October 2009. festival-cannes.com.
3. See G. HAINGE, A Tale of (at least) two Hiroshimas : Nobuhiro Suwa’s H Story and Alain Resnais’s Hiroshima mon amour, Contemporary French Civilization 32, 2 (2008), p. 147-173; Id., The Reverse Atomic Principle of Hiroshima mon amour .