120 mins |
Rated
TBC
Playing as part of the 2020 Japanese Film Festival November 27th - 29th.
Tickets to the festival are free. Tickets can be booked either through the Academy Cinemas website ($1.50 booking fee applies) or at the Academy Cinemas counter (no booking fee). Please note phone bookings are not available for the festival.
Tickets available from October 29th.
'Film adaptation of author Watanabe Kazufumi's non-fiction masterpiece.
Thirty-four-year-old Shikano Yasuaki (Oizumi Yo) can only move his neck and hands because of muscular dystrophy. He uses a wheelchair to get around. But he ditches the hospital in search of freedom and mobilizes volunteers so he can live exactly as he pleases. One day, a new volunteer named Misaki (Takahata Mitsuki) flips out at the self-indulgent Shikano. And Shikano's response is to falls head over heels in love with her, but she has a boyfriend, medical student volunteer Tanaka (Miura Haruma).'
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Playing as part of the 2020 Japanese Film Festival November 27th - 29th.
Tickets to the festival are free. Tickets can be booked either through the Academy Cinemas website ($1.50 booking fee applies) or at the Academy Cinemas counter (no booking fee). Please note phone bookings are not available for the festival.
Tickets available from October 29th.
'Film adaptation of author Watanabe Kazufumi's non-fiction masterpiece.
Thirty-four-year-old Shikano Yasuaki (Oizumi Yo) can only move his neck and hands because of muscular dystrophy. He uses a wheelchair to get around. But he ditches the hospital in search of freedom and mobilizes volunteers so he can live exactly as he pleases. One day, a new volunteer named Misaki (Takahata Mitsuki) flips out at the self-indulgent Shikano. And Shikano's response is to falls head over heels in love with her, but she has a boyfriend, medical student volunteer Tanaka (Miura Haruma).'