is a 2006 Japanese

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...

directed by

Shinji Aoyama was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, composer, film critic, and novelist. He graduated from Rikkyo University. He won two awards at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival for his film '' Eureka''. Biography Shinji Aoyama was born in Kitakyushu, ...

Plot

Cast

Kyōka Suzuki is a Japanese actress. Life and career Suzuki appeared in Shinji Aoyama's '' Mike Yokohama: A Forest with No Name'' and Yōichi Sai's ''Blood and Bones''. She won the Best Actress award at the 1998 Yokohama Film Festival for her role in '' Wel ...

as Kaoru *

Tsutomu Yamazaki is a Japanese actor. He won the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actor in 1984 for '' The Funeral'' and '' Farewell to the Ark''. Yamazaki is known for his roles as Goro in '' Tampopo'' (1985) and Nenbutsu no Tetsu on the television jidaigeki '' Hiss ...

as Blind Man *

Masanobu Andō is a Japanese actor. Ando has appeared in films such as Takeshi Kitano's '' Kids Return'' (1996), Kinji Fukasaku's '' Battle Royale'' (2000), Takashi Miike's '' Sukiyaki Western Django'' (2007), and Chen Kaige's '' Forever Enthralled'' (2008). ...

as Taichi *

Ayumi Ito is a Japanese actress from Tokyo, Japan. Career Ito played a supporting role in '' Tokyo!''. She also appeared in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 2012 television drama ''Penance'', and sang in the band Mean Machine. Filmography Film * '' Samurai Kids'' (19 ...

as Eiko

Production

''Crickets'' was filmed in 1.33:1 aspect ratio.

Release

''Crickets'' debuted in Orizzonti section at the

63rd Venice International Film Festival The 63rd annual Venice International Film Festival, was held from 30 August to 9 September 2006, at Venice Lido in Italy. French actress Catherine Deneuve was the jury president for the main competition. Italian actress Isabella Ferrari was the ...

on September 8, 2006.

Reception

Film Comment ''Film Comment'' is the official publication of Film at Lincoln Center. It features reviews and analysis of mainstream, art-house, and avant-garde filmmaking from around the world. Founded in 1962 and originally released as a quarterly, ''Film ...

'' named the film as one of "19 Films to Look Out For" in 2007. Japanese film critic

Shigehiko Hasumi Shigehiko Hasumi (蓮實重彥, aka Hasumi Shiguéhiko; born April 29, 1936 in Tokyo) is a Japanese literary critic, film critic, French literature scholar, and novelist. He was a professor at the University of Tokyo (Cultural Studies, or the "St ...

said, "''Crickets'' can be seen as a bold reply to Sokurov’s ''

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''."

References

External links

* Films directed by Shinji Aoyama 2006 drama films 2006 films Japanese drama films 2000s Japanese-language films 2000s Japanese films {{2000s-Japan-film-stub