*2005 Montreal World Film Festival Winner - Jury Awards
*2005 Japanese Professional Awards Winner - Best Picture and Best Actress
Fifty and unmarried, Minako lives a predictable, unassuming existence in a small town. Each day, after delivering the town’s milk she works at the local supermarket. Her evenings are spent alone with her many books as her only comfort. Keita, a local council employee, lives with his terminally ill wife Yoko. Yoko suspects an unresolved romantic past between her husband and “The Milkwoman” (Minako). Her feelings are confirmed when she hears an anonymous letter from a woman about “secret feelings which can never be spoken of” on late night radio. Yoko’s dying wish is for the two to be reunited, but after more than 30 years of living in denial, will they be able to face their true feelings?
Director
:
Akira Ogata
Producer
:
Shiro Oiwake, Hatanaka Motohiro
Screenplay
:
Kenji Aoki
Cast
:
Yuko Tanaka, Ittoku Kishibe, Akiko Nishina
Japanese w/English subtitles
2004 | 35mm | 127 min | Drama/ Romance
Sun Dec 2, 6:30pm
to Director Akira Ogata will be joining us as a special guest for a Q&A session.
Akira Ogata (Director)
Born 1959, Akira Ogata is best known for his first full-length feature, Boys Choir (2000), winner of the Albert Bauer Prize for Best New Director at the Berlin Film Festival.
His second feature film, The Milkwoman (2004) won the Jury Awards at the 2005 Montreal World Film Festival and Best Picture and Best Actress at the Japanese Professional Awards.
Since 2002, Ogata has been a lecturer in film at the Japan Academy of Moving Images and Kanto Gakuin University.
Akira Ogata (Director)