hajime

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Freely adapted from Haruki Murakami’s novel “South of the Border, West of the Sun”. Academic work with no commercial purposes. Storyline: Izumi is a lonely girl who meets and falls in love with a boy, Hajime, in elementary school. They spend most of their time listening to her father’s records. There favourite music is Nat King Cole's "South of the Border". Izumi's father is American and her mother Japanese. As they grow up, she loses touch with Hajime when she has to go to the USA. Years later they meet again in Tokyo but they aren’t children anymore. NOTES In this version the girl is half japanese half american and her name is Izumi. In the original novel her name is Shimamoto . The bed scene is based on a painting by Edward Hooper. http://www.behance.net/gallery/SHORT-MOVIE-South-of-the-Border-West-of-the-Sun/3116471 ______________________________________________ Directed by Francisco Sousa Faria S. With Christina Ivanova e Serj Pavlocev Drawings and Art Work by Álvaro André Neves & Francisco Sousa Faria S. Animation by Francisco Sousa Faria S. Scenography by André Sousa & Acácio Adapted Screenplay by Francisco Sousa Faria S. Based on the novel by Haruki Murakami Cameras: Francisco Oliveira, André Sousa, Eugénio Pavlocev, Francisco Sousa Faria S. _______________________________________________ 2010 ©