Free Stone adds quartet to virtual sales slate ahead of Busan and Tokyo film markets

Japanese independent sales company Free Stone Productions has added a quartet of new titles to its line-up in time for the rights markets in Busan and Tokyo.

The company is unable to travel to the Busan International Film Festival and will meet its customers virtually at Busan's Asian Content & Film Market. The TIFFCOM market, which runs alongside the Tokyo International Film Festival later this month, is a virtual event anyway.

Top of the list is "In Her Room", a romance about a young dentist getting started in an affair with a mysterious woman and cannot understand her. The film will be presented in the Nippon Cinema Now section of the Tokyo festival and will be commercially released in Japan from January. It is the feature film debut of Ito Chihiro and stars Iguchi Satoru, Baba Fumika and Kawai Yuumi.

Hiranami Wataru's thriller "Amnesiac Love", recently played at the International Film Festival from Moscow. Starring Tanaka Shunsuke, Yamaya Kasumi, and Tanaka Min, it tells the story of a budding antique dealer who finds himself between life and death in the underworld. In Japan, it is a Christmas release, with commercial release scheduled for December 24, 2022.

Based on a story by Variety contributor Mark Schilling, " Convenience Story" by Miki Satoshi The comedy follows its world premiere at the Fantasia festival and its later date at the Hong Kong IFF. The image features a screenwriter with a writers block in a convenience store where he can find anything his heart desires, including a mysterious but nowhere to be found woman.

Free Stone is also releasing "Tea Friends", a drama film by Sotoyama Bunji about a group of elderly women who operate as call girls for the elderly.

The company's slate also includes the previously announced "Leave in Summer" which was released in Japanese cinemas last month, and "Remember to Breathe", which will be released in Japanese cinemas on November 11.

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