Cottontail is the award-winning feature film from Academy Award® and Bafta Nominated Producer Gabrielle Tana (Philomena and The Dig, The Duchess, Stan & Ollie) and writer/director Patrick Dickinson (Elizabeth Windsor, “Ancient Apocalypse” “The Lost Pirate Kingdom,” “Royals: Keeping the Crown”) about a widower from Japan who travels with his estranged son to England in order to fulfill his late wife’s dying wish.
SYNOPSIS: After the death of his wife, Kenzaburo receives an unexpected letter from beyond the grave. His late wife asks him to travel to Lake Windermere in England with their son to scatter her ashes. Plagued by sweet and painful memories of his wife, Kenzaburo travels to England from Tokyo to fulfill her final wish, but the father and son’s fraught relationship threatens to upend their journey.
Starring Academy Award® Nominee CIARÁN HINDS (Belfast, First Man, “Game of Thrones”), LILY FRANKY (Analog, “The Naked Director”), AOIFE HINDS (Belfast, The Commuter), RYÔ NISHIKIDO (A Boy and His Samurai, Eight Rangers), TAE KIMURA (“House of Ninjas,” “The Unbroken,” “24 Japan”), RIN TAKANASHI (Love for Beginners, Samurai Sentai Shinkenger Movies), YURI TSUNEMATSU ( “Tokyo Vice,” The Pink Panther 2, Letters from Iwo Jima).
EN, JA | 94 min. | NR TV-14
WINNER BNL BNP Parisbas Best Debut Award – Rome Film Fest
Written & directed by PATRICK DICKINSON
Produced by GABRIELLE TANA, KÔSUKE OSHIDA, CAROLYN MARKS BLACKWOOD, HÉLÉNE THÉODOLY
LANGUAGE: English, Japanese
YEAR RELEASED: 2024
PRODUCTION YEAR: 2023
COUNTRY: UK
The film will be released exclusively in theaters on June 7th and On Demand July 9th thereafter.
Source: LEVEL 33 ENTERTAINMENT