Summary
Kyabakura is a type of hostess club in Japan, inspired by French cabaret. There exists an ambiguous relationship between the clients, the men, and the hostesses, that should never materialize into a sexual relationship…There are strict rules, which of course, are designed to be broken.
Technical sheet
- Documentary
- Duration: 30′
- Year: 2016
- Production: Ecce Films
- Director: Momoko Seto
- Camera: Momoko Seto & Minori Matsuoka
- Editor: Momoko Seto & Nicolas Sarkissian
- Sound: Emmanuel Chaumet
- Mix: Quentin Degy
- Color grading: Yannig Willmann
- Music: Blond Redhead
- Shooting Format: HD
- Screening Format: DCP
- Sound Format: Stereo
Casting
- Lemi Tokura
- Momo Minami
- Yuria Sakai
- Lia Oikawa
- Hideki Nara
- Daito Nakajima
- Shougo Washizo
- Hamaji
- Yoruno Sensei
Screenings & Festivals
- Visions du réel, Nyons [ch], april 21-26th 2016
- Festival Côté Court Pantin [fr], june 15-25th 2016
- Festival du film de fesses, Paris [fr], june 22-26th 2016
- Vienna International Shorts Film Festival – Selection « Those we love » [Au], may 25-31st 2016
- Festival Paris Cinéma, Paris [fr], june 28th – july 9th 2013
- Guanajuato Film Festival, Special Showcase Midnight Madness, [mx] july 22-31st 2016
- Dokufest, Prizren [Kosovo] aug 5-13th 2016
- Belo Horizonte Film Festival, World Movements Exhibitions, [br] aug 5-14th 2016
- La Guarimba International Film Festival [it] aug 7-11th 2016
- Thess International Short Film Festival [Gt] sept 17-22nd 2016
- Festival Nouveau Cinéma, Montréal [ca] oct 6-15th 2016
- Carbonia Film Festival, 2016 – Competition Micce Corte, Carbonia [it] oct 12-16th 2016
- Women in Film & Photography, [Singapore], oct 19th- nov 20th 2016
- 35th Uppsala International Short Film [sw], oct 24-30th
- International Short Film Competition of the 300. Stuttgarter Filmwinter [De] jan 18-22th 2017
- Festival de film de Femme, Créteil [Fr] march 10-19th 2017
- Skopje Film Festival [Mk] april 20-28th 2017
- VIDEODROME 2 Marseille [Fr] april 5th 2018
- 23e édition du festival Les rencontres autour du Film Ethnographique à Grenoble, Cinémathèque de Grenoble [Fr] Nov 13th 2019
- Festival de l’histoire de l’Art à Fontainebleau [Fr], June 6th 2021
Awards
- PUBLIC AWARD at Festival du film de fesses in Paris [fr]
- BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT at La Guarimba International Film Festival [Fr]
TV broadcasting
- France 3 : 24/01/2017