Invisible Waves
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Cantonese |
Invisible Waves (
Berlin Film Festival and was also shown at the 2006 Bangkok International Film Festival and the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival.[1]
Plot
Kyoji is a cook living in
Phuket, Thailand
, where real life-or-death adventures begin for Kyoji as he starts to put the pieces together about what he's done.
Cast
- Tadanobu Asano as Kyoji
- Maria Cordero as Maria
- Toon Hiranyasap as Wiwat
- Kang Hye-jung as Noi
- Ken Mitsuishi as Lizard
- Eric Tsang as Monk
- Tomono Kuga as Seiko
Awards and nominations
- 2006 Berlin International Film Festival – world premiere, nominated for Golden Bear.
- 2006 Bangkok International Film Festival – in competition and opening film.
Oscar controversy
Invisible Waves had been announced as
Ahimsa ... Stop to Run, which upset the Invisible Waves production company, Five Star Production. The film federation said that the reason for the change was that a print of the film wouldn't be available in time to send to the Academy for consideration, but Five Star, sales agent Fortissimo Films and distributor Palm Pictures stated that was not true. Earlier, the federation had opposed the film's opening of the 2006 Bangkok International Film Festival, stating that since it was an international co-production it was not truly a Thai film.[2][3]
References
- ^ News release, 2006. TIFF Announces Best of International Film Festival Circuit Archived 2006-07-24 at the Wayback Machine, Toronto International Film Festival (retrieved August 18, 2006).
- ^ Thailand madness is back! Archived 2006-11-07 at the Wayback Machine, Kaiju Shakedown (December 28, 2006).
- ^ Soop Sip. October 4, 2006. "Oscar hopeful to open film fest", The Nation, Page 12A (print edition).
External links
- Invisible Waves at IMDb
- Invisible Waves at AllMovie
- Invisible Waves at Rotten Tomatoes
