BABIN

2008 / 30 min

SYNOPSIS

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In the forest, a man is buried up to his waist and repeats an interminable and incomprehensible monologue. His seclusion is about to be disturbed by the arrival of a little boy…

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Cast

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Keisuke Horibe 
Naoto Nojima 
Satoshi Takahashi

STAFF

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Director : Isamu Hirabayashi 
Producer : Yoshinari Natsumeda 
Producer : Takao Odamiya 
Cinematographer : Miki Ogawa 
Gaffer : Yasuhiro Nomura 
Recording : Takashi Ito 
Production Design : Noriko Kato 
Music : Takashi Watanabe 
Make : Yoshito Shiraishi 
Stylist : Yuina Matsunaga 
Costume Design : HIkaru Komatsu 
Special Effects : Yuji Tanaka 
Art : Kiyoshi Kagiyama 
Assistant Producere : Takuya Fukui 
Production Manager : Yu Yamazaki 
Assistant Director : Yujiro Mukai 
Assistant Director : Masakazu KIkuchi 
Assistant Director : Shigeto Okada 
Assistant Director : Mina Yonezawa 
Camera Assistant : Yusuke Suga 
Camera Assistant : Ryo Ishida 
Camera Assistant : Fumiko Mishiro 
Light Assistant : Hidehiko Ehara 
Light Assistant : Hidenori Ehara 
Light Assistant : Yoshitaka Igarashi 
Recording Assistant : Shinichi Oinuma 
Assistant Designer : Hirokazu Abe 
Sound Mixer : Takeshi Kino 
Sound Effects : Naoki Takahashi 
Still : Kaname Kondo 
Driver : Takumi Yanagawa 
Sound Recording : Yusuke Toyoura 
Piano : Michiko Furumoto 
Vocal : Midori Kurata 
Shamisen : Katsujuro Kineya 
Guiter, Bass & Vocal : Hideo Kusumi 
Bass Clarinet : Terumichi Aoyama 
Drums : Dai Hamamoto 
Recording Studio : Kobe Institute of Computing-College of Computing 
Post Production : Studio Inter Field 
Post Production : TOEI Labo Tech 
Production Company : Paradice Cafe inc. 
Production Company : Gauguins International inc. 
ndjc 2007 
New Directors in Japanese Cinema 2007 
commissioned by Agency for Cultural Affairs 
Supervisor : Shiro Sasaki 
VIPO

Film Festival

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Locarno International Film Festival (Switzerland) 
Award / Film and Video Subtitling Prize 
Award / Prize Cinema e Giovent 
 

Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival (France) 
Image Forum Festival 2008 (Japan) 
Off Courts Trouville (France) 
Vancouver International Film Festival (Canada) 
London Film Festival (U.K.) 
Cork Film Festival (Ireland) 
Clark Theater 2008 (Japan)