Short Film "karappo"

This film won the Japan Tourism Agency Commissioner's Award (Grand Prix) at the BRANDED SHORTS 2023, sponsored by Asia's largest international short film festival, Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2023.
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AOMORI SHORT FILM PROJECT 21-22 production
Aomori Prefecture short film “karappo”
ⒸAOMORI SHORT FILM PROJECT
Fall 2022. Haruka Kudo (21), a college student born in Tsugaru, is a shy job hunter. One day, while heading to Tokyo, he runs into his old friend Aoi Mikami (21), a job-hunting student, for the first time in a while. Seeing Haruka depressed after the Tohoku Shinkansen train is suspended for the entire day, Aoi uses the transportation money to semi-forcibly take Haruka out on a local trip. A youth movie depicting Haruka and Aoi's one-night, two-day escape trip as they struggle with job hunting.
Starring: Momoe Fujimaki, Wakana Takahashi
▷What is AOMORI SHORT FILM PROJECT (ASFP)?
A co-creation project in which a team of creators, mentors, and young people in their teens and twenties learn about the thoughts of people who live in Aomori through dialogue and exchange, and depict them in the form of a short film.
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