‘Between Us’ Director Matsumura Shingo on Finding Connection After Disaster and Making Films on Japanese Budgets

‘Between Us’ Director Matsumura Shingo on Finding Connection After Disaster and Making Films on Japanese Budgets hakkında magazin dünyasında yaşanan en son ayrıntılar ve sıcak gelişmeler netleşti. Nov 1, 2026 3:17pm PT ‘Between Us’ Director Matsumura Shingo on Finding Connection After Disaster and Making Films on Japanese Budgets By Kambole Campbell Plus Icon Kambole Campbell Latest Japan’s New 2027 Anime Award Should Put Creators in the Spotlight, Industry Leaders Say at Tokyo Market 2 days ago Taiwanese Feature ‘Uncle’ Wins Top Prize at Tokyo Gap-Financing Market Awards 3 days ago Aliens, Dinosaurs and a Father’s Death: ‘Kefi’ Director Saito Kisin Brings a Surreal Take on Grief to Tokyo 4 days ago See All Add us as a Google Preferred Source Comments Unspoken emotional wounds linger throughout “ Between Us ,” Japanese director Matsumura Shingo’s new film playing in the Tokyo International Film Festival ’s Nippon Cinema Now section, its strand for Japanese films. The film follows Makoto and Kasumi, childhood best friends who drift apart after an incident on a joint family camping trip and reunite six years later in their high school drama club.

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Kawashima Ririka, Kurasawa Anna, Kikuchi Akiko, Usuda Asami, Saito Yoichiro and Miura Takahiro star. The script leaves a lot unsaid, letting patient camerawork absorb the emotional information each character tries to withhold.

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“All the cameras are becoming all compact right now, and you see all these videos shown on YouTube and social media that are shot by those cameras,” he says. “And so I wanted to differentiate what I show on the big screen with that kind of content.

That is one of the reasons why. The second reason is that I want to capture the emotion of the actors truthfully, slowly.” There’s a fascinating contrast in how “Between Us” seeks emotional realism but finds it through very measured, precise camerawork, particularly in how it turns the emotional distance between Makoto and Kasumi into literal distance through the blocking of each scene.

“What was more difficult to portray was [that] though they are apart, they are feeling the existence of the other,” Matsumura says, “and I wanted to show that with the use of the eyes and use of the space: though there was a physical space [between them], they kind of had each other in mind, and I wanted to express that through other elements.” The drama club has lost members because Kasumi takes it so seriously that others feel they can’t keep up. Even after Makoto joins the club, the two are often shot far apart, but Matsumura shows the mending through a rather simple editing decision: cutting the girls’ separate read-throughs as though they are trading lines, with each cut bringing them closer than ever before, even though they aren’t in the same room.

“The play is a fiction, but they are speaking in their own language,” he says. “And by saying their lines, they are able to say what they were not able to say in the real world, and by doing that, their distance becomes closer.” The script Kasumi discovers, which gives the film its title, becomes what begins to mend their relationship, quite literally bringing them closer together.

The intimate story has big-picture beginnings.

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