塔林电影节新导演单元Japan’s Koji Yamamura, already a renowned artist and animator, brings the international premiere of his feature debut, Dozens of Norths, to our 25th birthday edition of PÖFF. The experimental and existential hand drawn and painted piece, charts a dialogue-free voyage into an alien northern realm: it’s skeletal architecture and chilly inhabitants.
1712年,第七代将军德川家继之时,深受第六代将军家宣器重的间部诠房(及川光博饰)受命辅佐幼主摄政。秋元乔知(岸谷五朗饰)等一批老臣对此心怀不满,两派斗争愈演愈烈。大奥也不例外,女总管绘岛(仲间由纪惠饰)一直协助现任将军的生母月光院(井川遥饰),对付第六代将军家宣的正室天英院(高岛礼子饰)派系的人,她成了天英院的眼中钉。府中有传月光院与诠房有私情,天英院准备抓住机会一举打垮敌人,她和秋元等人密谋先拿绘岛开刀,铲除月光院的得力助手。绘岛外出时偶遇歌舞伎名角生岛新五郎(西岛秀俊饰),对这位美男子一见钟情。此后两人又因机缘巧合频频重逢,绘岛却不知这是天英院的诡计。一日,戏院突起大火……