| Paco and the Magical Book | |||||||||||
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| Director: | Tetsuya Nakashima | ||||||||||
| Story: | Hirohito Goto | ||||||||||
| Producer: | Yutaka Suzuki | ||||||||||
| Screenplay: | Nobuhiro Monma Tetsuya Nakashima | ||||||||||
| Starring: | Kōji Yakusho Ayaka Wilson Satoshi Tsumabuki | ||||||||||
| Music: | Gabriele Roberto | ||||||||||
| Cinematography: | Shoichi Ato Atsushi Ozawa | ||||||||||
| Editing: | Yoshiyuki Koike | ||||||||||
| Studio: | Cine Bazar TV Tokyo Hakuhodo DY Media Partners DesperaDo Parco Horipro Gentosha Amuse Soft Licri TV Osaka Columbia Music Entertainment TV Aichi Television Hokkaido TVQ Kyushu Broadcasting TV Setouchi | ||||||||||
| Distributor: | Toho | ||||||||||
| Runtime: | 105 minutes | ||||||||||
| Country: | Japan | ||||||||||
| Language: | Japanese | ||||||||||
| Gross: | $22,679,633[1] | ||||||||||
is a 2008 Japanese film written and directed by Tetsuya Nakashima, based on a play by Hirohito Gotō.
It was shown at the Munich Asian Filmfest in 2008[2] and has been nominated for three awards for the 2009 Asian Film Awards.[3] Actors Kōji Yakusho and Ayaka Wilson and director Tetsuya Nakashima have been nominated for the 2008 Japanese Academy Award.[4]
The movie is set in a hospital where "strange" people are sent.
One of the older, gruffer patients, is Onuki, a business owner who is sent to the hospital after a heart attack, thinks little of the other hospital patients, and hopes to die without being remembered by such "worthless" people. Another patient, a young girl named Paco, is in the hospital due to a memory disorder- she can only remember the events of one day at a time. Each day she reads a pop-up children's book, and often asks Onuki to read to her. Each day it is a new story for her.
Eventually, the two of them develop a friendship, and Onuki decides to enlist the help of the other people in the hospital to perform a play of the book, hoping it will help Paco.