Part of the 2015 season: It Only Happens in the Movies?

Bolt from the Blue

Director Gekidan Hitori

Cast Yo Oizumi, Kou Shibasaki, Gekidan Hitori

2014, 96 min, English subtitles

青天の霹靂 (Seiten no hekireki)

Haruo (Yo Oizumi) can’t seem to catch a break. Broke and tending bars for a living after failing to become a successful stage magician, he gets a phone call informing him that his estranged father has passed away. On the way to collect his father’s belongings, Haruo is struck by a lightning bolt and sent back to the past, to a date not long before he is born and bumps into his ‘future’ father and mother.

This heart-warming film, based on director and comedian Gekidan Hitori’s own novel was a huge box office success in Japan, telling a story about family, ambition and the consequences of the choices that we make.

Showing at: ICA, London; QFT, Belfast; QUAD, Derby; Showroom, Sheffield; Watershed, Bristol; Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle upon Tyne; Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal, Cumbria; Broadway Cinema, Nottingham.

Distributor: Toho

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