Farash bād / Behndgar/Three Arrows Entertainment [presents]; [directed by] Kamāl Tabrīzī; [written by] Muḥammad Sulaymānī; [starring] Riz̤ā Kiyāniyān, Yumiko Masuda, Takākī Īynūkī, Farībā Kāmirān.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Tabrīzī, Kamāl, 1951- director.

Sulaymānī, Muḥammad, scenarist.

Kiyāniyān, Riz̤ā, 1951- actor.

Īynūkī, Takākī, actor.

Farībā Kāmirān, actor.

Behndgar (Firm), producer.

Three Arrows Entertainment (Firm), producer.

Muʼassasah-i Rasanāhā-yi Taṣwīrī, producer.

تبرىزى، کمال، 1951- director.

Sulaymānī, Muḥammad, 1978 or 1979-

کىانىان، رضا، 1951 يا -2, actor.

ايىنوکى، تکاکى

فرىبا کامران

مؤسسه رسناهاى تصوىرى.

Language:

English

Persian

Subjects (All):

International relations.

Japan.

Iran.

Iran--Foreign relations--Japan--Drama.

Japan--Foreign relations--Iran--Drama.

Genre:

Drama.

Feature films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (approximately 96 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

polychrome

Place of Publication:

[Tehran] : Muʼassasah-i Rasanāhā-yi Taṣwīrī, 1384 [2005]

[Tehran] : مؤسسه رسناهاى تصوىرى، 1384 [2005]

Language Note:

In Persian.

System Details:

VCD; suitable for video CD players and multimedia PCs with MPEG card.

digital

optical

video file

DVD video

Summary:

Ten-year-old Sakura (Miyu Yagyu) travels with her father Makoto (Takaaki Enoki) from Japan, to Isfahan, Iran, to pick up a Persian carpet designed by her late mother. Although warmly greeted by Makoto's friend Akbar (Reza Kianian), it soon becomes clear that the carpet, needed in 20 days' time for a Japanese street-festival - has not even been started. Coming to the rescue is Ruzbeh (Farboud Ahmadjo), Akbar's tenacious and streetwise 11-year-old nephew, who mobilises the locals into a sort of carpet-weaving Task Force in a bid to get the job done. This Iranian-Japanese co-production fittingly celebrates cross-cultural collaboration as a way of getting results and, perhaps more importantly, enriching each other's traditional way of life. Although essentially a conventional fish-out-of-water story, director Kamal Tabrizi brings a variety of tones and textures to the film to keep it from following a predictable pattern. Vibrant, good-natured and with a deeply-embedded emotional thread running throughout, this is an accessible family film with much to offer fans of Iranian cinema, fans of Japanese cinema and fans of cinema full-stop.

Participant:

Riz̤ā Kiyāniyā, Yumiko Masuda, Takākī Īynūkī, Farībā Kāmirān.

Notes:

VCD release of the 2003 motion picture.

OCLC:

307591475