Renoir
A coming-of-age story following a tomboyish 11-year-old girl whose intellectual father is dying of cancer and mother at her wits’ end. The courageous girl seeks adventures, some involving the paranormal.
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Friday, May 8, 2026
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Tuesday, May 12, 2026
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This coming-of-age story follows an unusual 11-year-old girl, in 1980s Tokyo, whose intelligent father is dying of cancer and mother at her wits' end. It's another fine movie by Japanese female director Chie Hayakawa, who trained in New York, and whose previous film, about euthanasia (Plan 75), won an award at Cannes Film Festival in 2022 and was presented at SIFF a few years ago. The tomboyish/courageous girl Fuki (Yui Suzuki in her debut role) has an interest in the paranormal and tries out hypnosis and card tricks on her friends and family. Here is lovely writing and direction - a lot of seemingly small stuff happens, such as imitating a horse call, impersonating a young woman to meet with a man whom she contacted on the phone, and learning about the painter Renoir. But there is much intellectual development going on in Fuki's brain. Without complaint or antics, she grows through difficulties such as the death of her dear father and contemplates the effect of death on society.
—Mayumi Tsutakawa
- Director: Chie Hayakawa
- Principal Cast: Yui Suzuki, Lily Franky, Hikari Ishida
- Country: Japan, France, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Qatar, USA
- Year: 2025
- Running Time: 118 min.
- Producer: Fran Borgia, Christophe Bruncher, Jason Gray, Keisuke Konishi, Eiko Mizuno Gray
- Screenplay: Chie Hayakawa
- Cinematographers: Hideho Urata
- Editors: Anne Klotz
- Music: Remi Boubal
- Website: Official Film Website
- Awards: TAMA Film Awards 2025 (Best Film), Asia Pacific Screen Awards 2025 (Best New Performer, Best Screenplay), QCinema International Film Festival 2025 (Best Director, Best Lead Performance), Doha Film Festival 2025 (Best Artistic Achievement) Kinema Jumpo Awards 2025 (Best Newcomer Actress), Pia Film Festival 2026 (Oshima Prize)
- Filmography: Plan 75 (2022)
- Language: Japanese, English
- Has Subtitles: Yes
- US Distributor: Film Movement
- International Sales: Goodfellas