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｜ NOTES ｜ CAST ｜ STAFF ｜ Director ｜ Data ｜

NISESATSU

NOTES

This suspenseful film is based on the incident of counterfeit bill that happened in Yamanashi soon after World War II. Everyone in Japan tried desperately to live in a chaotic situation in the twenties of the Showa period, when its militarism was replaced with democracy. A heroine (played by Mitsuko Baisho) of this film is a vice-principal of an elementary school in a small village between the mountains where the papermaking industry thrives. Everyone in the village likes her, and one of her old students approaches her on counterfeiting a new thousand-yen bill one day. She thinks that money will enable the children to have a better life. Thereafter all the people in the village begin to counterfeit money. This is the first feature film directed by Yuichi Kimura, who has shown a remarkable talent as a comedian, a broadcast program writer, a cook, and an actor. In this film, he exercises his remarkable storytelling skill supported by his varied career in describing how the villagers attach their hopes to counterfeit bill, having a thrilling human relationship including love between parent and child and a bitter split between the villagers. This high-quality entertainment film consisting of funny and moving stories describes the villagers’ scorn for present mammonism.

CAST

Kageko Sada（Mitsuko Baisyo）

Tetsuya Nakagawa（Munetaka Aoki）

Fumio Toura（Yasunori Danta）

Kiyota Hashimoto（Jun Murakami）

Shingo Ohtsu（Toshiyuki Itakura）

Kenzo Ogasawara（Masaki Miura）

Misako Shimamoto（Ryo Nishikata）

STAFF

Director/ Co-Screenwriter	Yuichi Kimura
Screenwriter	Kosuke Mukai
	Kishu Izuchi
Director of Photography	Yoshihiro Ikeuchi
Editor	Tsuyoshi Imai
Title Tune	ASKA

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Director

Director	Yuichi Kimura
Profile	Born in Kyoto in 1963. Move to Tokyo in 1994 and made his debut as a broadcast program writer for “Downtown no gottsu eekanji” (Fuji Television Network). Appeared in the films; “Daremo-shiranai” (in 2004), “ALWAYS sanchomeno-yuhi” (in 2005), “Matsugane-ranshajiken” (in 2007), and “Shonen Merikensack” (in 2008).
Message	Congratulations on your holding Okinawa International Movie Festival.I’m greatly honored to have my first feature film screened here in Okinawa, which is my favorite place. Although this film contains some scenes of a crime, I tried to make it heart-warming and not too serious as much as possible.Please enjoy it in a relaxed mood.

Data

Country	JAPAN
Year	2009
Runtime	94
Production & distribution Company	Bitters End
	Homepage：	http://www.bitters.co.jp/
Copyright	©2009『ニセ札』製作委員会