POOLSIDE MAN

Japan, 2017, 117 min.
Production: Foolish Piggies Films
Language: Japanese
Format: DCP

Script: Hirobumi Watanabe
Director: Hirobumi Watanabe
DoP: Woohyun Bang l
Editor: Hirobumi Watanabe
Composer: Yuji Watanabe
Producers: Hirobumi Watanabe, Uji Watanabe
Cast: Gaku Imamura, Hirobumi Watanabe, Takanori Kurosaki, Isao Hirayama, Kodo Toda

Swimming pool lifeguard Mizuhara Yusuke has no family or friends. One day, he accompanies his colleague Shirasaki Koji to a neighboring town where, due to an epidemic, there aren’t enough lifeguards.

Hirobumi Watanabe
Born in 1982. Graduate of the Japan Institute of the Moving Image. In 2013 he and his brother Yuji founded Foolish Piggies Films.

2016 Poolside Man
2015 7 Days
2013 And the Mud Ship Sails Away…