Off-Balance

Off-Balance
Off-Balance
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Shin Togashi
Screenplay by	Shiori Kazama
Based on	Hi-baransu; by Naoko Uozumi
Produced by	Ken Hasegawa; Shigeaki Komatsu; Sadatoshi Fujimine;
Starring	Megumi Hatachiya; Fumiyo Kohinata; Yu Hatano
Cinematography	Kōzō Shibasaki
Edited by	Akimasa Kawashima
Music by	Masahiro Kawasaki
Distributed by	JVC; Media Box
Release date	June 2, 2001 (Japan);
Running time	95 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Off-Balance (Japanese: 非・バランス, Hepburn: Hi-baransu) is a 2001 Japanese film directed by Shin Togashi based on the novel Hi-baransu by Naoko Uozumi, which won the author the Kodansha Award for New Writers of Children's Literature.

Cast

Megumi Hatachiya as Chiaki
Fumiyo Kohinata as Kiku-chan
Yu Hatano as Mizue
Momoka Nakamura as Yukari
Shūji Kashiwabara as Heath
Tomato as Yuri-chan
Kumiko Tsuchiya as Homeroom Teacher
Ryūshi Mizukami as Video Store Clerk
Masayo Umezawa as Mizue's Mother
Noriko Hayami as Masayoshi's Wife
Mieko Harada as Chiaki's Mother

Awards

23rd Yokohama Film Festival

Won: Best New Director - Shin Togashi
10th Best Film

References

↑ 非・バランス [Off-Balance] (in Japanese). AllCinema. Retrieved 2013-10-11.
↑ "Booksfromjapan.jp" 魚住直子 [Naoko Uozumi] (in Japanese). JLit. Retrieved 2013-10-11.
↑ 第23回ヨコハマ映画祭日本映画個人賞 [23rd Yokohama Film Festival Japanese Film Individual Award] (in Japanese). Yokohama Film Festival. Archived from the original on 2012-09-28. Retrieved 2011-01-06.
↑ 第23回ヨコハマ映画祭日本映画ベスト 10 [23rd Yokohama Film Festival Japanese Film Best 10] (in Japanese). Yokohama Film Festival. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2011-01-06.

External links

Off-Balance at IMDb
Off-Balance at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)

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[1] 非・バランス [Off-Balance] (in Japanese). AllCinema. Retrieved 2013-10-11.

[2] "Booksfromjapan.jp" 魚住直子 [Naoko Uozumi] (in Japanese). JLit. Retrieved 2013-10-11.

[3] 第23回ヨコハマ映画祭日本映画個人賞 [23rd Yokohama Film Festival Japanese Film Individual Award] (in Japanese). Yokohama Film Festival. Archived from the original on 2012-09-28. Retrieved 2011-01-06.

[4] 第23回ヨコハマ映画祭日本映画ベスト 10 [23rd Yokohama Film Festival Japanese Film Best 10] (in Japanese). Yokohama Film Festival. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2011-01-06.