Summer in Closed Eyes is the journey of a girl named Ha, played by actress Phuong Anh Dao. The story begins when Ha goes to Higashikawa town, Hokkaido, Japan to find her father (played by artist Cong Ninh). Ha's journey takes a new direction - exploring the land where snow falls in the summer, where her father lived for a long time and here Ha meets a Japanese boy - Akira (played by actor Takafumi Akutsu).
Ha - a summer girl with a sunny smile like her name, plus an active personality, likes to explore and act according to her heart, hates lies. Ha likes taking pictures, sending handwritten letters and using smartphones, is the girl of the team who can't eat onions. On the contrary, Akira is a winter boy, cold, rarely smiles, his eyes are always deep and full of stories but deep inside Akira is warmth, sophistication, depth and sincere care. Akira likes to take black and white photos without people and especially doesn't use a phone.
Summer in Closed Eyes is a psychological journey of two characters, telling the love story of two young Japanese and Vietnamese people with different languages and cultures. Interwoven with that are family and father-son feelings. People with different starting points but come together in the town of Higashikawa and write a story with a message full of life:
“If One Day – you could no longer see, what would you want to see the most?”
If One Day – you could no longer hear, what would you want to hear most?”
If One Day – you could no longer speak, what would you want to say the most?”
Not famous Japanese cities like Tokyo, Osaka or Kyoto, the main setting of Summer in Closed Eyes is Higashikawa town located in Hokkaido, Japan. This place is ranked 3rd in the list of favorite destinations in Hokkaido because Higashikawa is known as the town of pictures and is a rare place in the world where it snows in the summer. It snows almost all year round and especially snow starts falling from early October until the end of June next year. The filming time of Summer in Closed Eyes is especially during the short summer period in Higsashikawa, however, the temperature here at the warmest time is only about 18 degrees and the average daily temperature varies from 2 degrees to 10 degrees, so this is also the place where the film crew had to try very hard to complete each scene of the movie.
Summer in Closed Eyes is considered an independent film project with high investment and meticulous content and images. In the commercialized film market to meet the majority of audiences, Summer in Closed Eyes is considered a bold move with the 3 no content criteria: "no sex, no box office stars, no nonsense comedy". Moreover, the film crew was also very bold with a total of more than 30 people, very different from the usual film crew of 70 to 90 people. In particular, this is a film in which Japanese actors account for almost 3/4 of the cast, the difficulty increased many times during the filming, directing and production process and directly affected the mood of each character in the film.
Summer in Closed Eyes is a film with a gentle and delicate perspective from content, setting, color to music. Audiences will have more choices and learn more about this new film genre in the series of commercial films released in recent years.
Summer in Closed Eyes will be officially released on June 1, 2018.
News: Bao Khuyen
