Blue Hour (2019)
Also Known As:
ブルーアワーにぶっ飛ばす
ブルーアワー
Buru Awa ni Buttobasu
Jump Into The Blue Hour
Buru Awa
L'heure Bleue
Director:
Hakota Yuko [箱田優子]
Country:
Japanese
Genres:
Comedy, Drama, Family
Status:
Completed
Date aired:
2019
Summary:
Takahata Isao’s animated artistry in Only Yesterday (1991) comes to life in Hakota Yuko’s delicate story of a woman’s mnemonic journey. Trapped in her anemic career and love relationship, a 30-year-old TV commercial director returns to her countryside home in the company of a free-spirited friend. In a bittersweet reunion with an alienated family, her childhood memories of freedom and yearnings creep in the dreamlike blue hour, transcending into a lyricism of self-realization – at once whimsical, agonizing and yet hopeful.