Day Off

[Machine Translation] A nationwide theatrical smash hit in the fall of 2024. A moving human drama that won the Akira Kurosawa Award! Based on a scenario modeled on his own mother's, Taiwanese director Hu Tien-Yu, who is also active as a writer and music video director, spent three years filming at his family's actual barbershop in Taichung. The entire film evokes a soft sense of nostalgia, while delicately depicting the journey of finding new hope after a tumultuous time. The film stars Lou Hsiao-hsien as the main character, Earl Lee, who returns to the silver screen after a 24-year absence, winning the Best Actress Award at the Taipei Film Awards and the Yakushi Shinju Award (Best Actor) at the Osaka Asian Film Festival. The film co-stars Hu Mong-Bo ("The Day the Words Disappeared"), who won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the Taipei Film Awards for his performance in "The Return to School". Also making special appearances are Chen Bo-lin (Blue Summer Love) and Lin Bo-hong (Me and a Ghost in the Family). --A traditional barbershop on a street corner in Taichung, Taiwan. The three children he raised with his own hands are now independent, and the owner, Mr. Arui, stands alone in his store today, his scissors clanging as he serves his regular customers. A gentleman comes in for a haircut to attend his son's graduation ceremony, an elderly man comes in for his first gray hair dye job after being told by his late wife standing by his bedside that his hair should be black, and a high school boy pleads with his parents not to tell him to get his hair styled in the latest fashion...the store seems as if time has stopped, but in fact there are many tears and laughter, The shop, where time seems to have stopped, is actually quite busy with tears and laughter. One day, when Mr. Arui learns that his "teacher," who has been coming to the store from a town far away, is on the verge of illness, he hangs a sign in the store that says "Closed Today," and heads for the town for one last haircut....

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2024年秋、全国劇場スマッシュヒットを記録。黒澤明賞に輝く、感動の人間ドラマ! 作家、MV監督としても活躍する台湾の俊英フー・ティエンユー監督が、自身の母親をモデルに書き上げたシナリオを元に、台中の実家で実際に営んでいる理髪店で撮影を敢行し、3年の月日をかけて完成させた。全編を通じて柔らかなノスタルジーを感じさせながらも、波乱を経て新たな希望を見出す道程を繊細に描き出す。主人公のアールイ役には名優ルー・シャオフェンが24年ぶりに銀幕に主演復帰し、台北電影奨主演女優賞、大阪アジアン映画祭 薬師真珠賞 (俳優賞)を受賞。共演に本作で台北電影奨 助演男優賞を受賞したフー・モンボー (『返校 言葉が消えた日』)。さらに『藍色夏恋』のチェン・ボーリン、『僕と幽霊が家族になった件』のリン・ボーホンが、特別出演しているのも見逃せない。 ――台中の、とある街角に佇む、昔ながらの理髪店。女手ひとつで育て上げた3人の子供たちも既に独立し、店主のアールイさんは今日も一人店に立ち、常連客を相手にハサミの音を響かせる。息子の卒業式に出席するために整髪にやって来る紳士、枕元に立った亡き妻に「髪は黒いほうが良い」と言われ、初めて白髪染めにやって来る老人、親に内緒で流行りのヘアスタイルにして欲しいと懇願する高校生男子・・・、時が止まったように見える店も、泣いたり笑ったり、その実、結構忙しいのです。ある日、離れた町から通ってくれていた"先生"が病の床に伏したことを知ったアールイさんは、店に「本日公休」の札を掲げて、最後の散髪のためにその町に向かうのだが・・・。