| 37 Seconds | |
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 Film poster | |
| Directed by | Hikari |
| Written by | Hikari |
| Produced by | Hikari Peter Maez Shin Yamaguchi |
| Starring | Mei Kayama |
| Cinematography | Stephen Blahut Tomoo Ezaki |
| Edited by | Thomas A. Krueger |
| Music by | ASKA |
Production companies | Knockonwood Hikari Films |
| Distributed by | Films Boutique Netflix |
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Running time | 115 minutes[1] |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
37 Seconds is a 2019 Japanese drama film written and directed by Hikari. The film features actress Mei Kayama, who has cerebral palsy, as 23-year-old Yuma Takada, a talented artist who wants to make her name in manga. A sympathetic magazine editor (Yuka Itaya) tells Takada her art is technically proficient but betrays her lack of worldly experience. Criticizing her depictions of sex as unconvincing, the editor tells the young woman, who uses a wheelchair to get around, to lose her virginity and then return.
The film was screened at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival[2] and won the Audience Award and the International Confederation of Art Cinemas’ Art Cinema Award in the festival's Panorama section.[3]
