Takahashi Izumi : 2014
Traditional Japanese wooden Daruma dolls have no ears. At school, hearing-impaired Dari's classmates gave her the nickname 'Dari Marusan' in reference to such dolls. Whilst Dari has now adopted the name as her own, she hasn't got over the hurt. Yoshikawa is a severely traumatised man who keeps his distance from other people and thinks he has severed all links to the past. He secludes himself from the feeling of regret for an act he committed towards a friend. Dari works for an agency that tracks down missing pets, and is given the assignment of finding the parrot that Yoshikawa lost two years previously. When the sensitive Dari and the gruff, inconsiderate Yoshikawa meet, old wounds resurface for the both of them. She will have to figure out what her client has really lost and find her own dignity in the process. Takahashi Izumi's feature premiered at Tokyo FILMeX 2014, and had its European premiere in the Forum section at Berlin International Film Festival 2015.
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